If you can accept yet another tour around a love triangle, Wonder Wheel is generally engaging and nearly always entertaining.
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Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Café Society” — Cobwebbed
Conclusion: Woody Allen is, and long long has been, an aged fart.
Film Commentary: In Defense of Woody Allen
A response to Ty Burr’s column called “Here’s why Woody Allen is overrated”in yesterday’s Boston Globe.
Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” — Some Existential Pleasures
This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.
Film Review: “Magic in the Moonlight” — Recycling Made Charming
Despite Woody Allen’s recycling of old ideas and plot points, his actors give such strong characterizations that I tossed my skepticism aside and enjoyed the moonlit ride.
Film Review: “Fading Gigolo” — Kind of Funny, Kind of Touching
“Fading Gigolo” isn’t about fulfillment, sexual or otherwise — it’s about the transitions in the lives of its characters.
Fuse Film Review: “Blue Jasmine” — Woody Allen’s Evocative Triumph
What carries Blue Jasmine over the moon is the breathtaking, Oscar-worthy performance of Cate Blanchett, whose tortured Park Avenue socialite on the skids is among the most stunning performances by an actress in years.
Coming Attractions in Film: September 2011
The beginning of a not-bad fall film season in New England, with some Woody Allen classics, an Iranian melodrama among the youth set, an appearance by a legendary Japanese experimental film maker, and a couple of high-grade action flicks.
Film Commentary: Time Traveling With and Without Woody Allen
Time travel in movies, whether treated as farce or serious sci-fi mind-bending, sometimes excites us by challenging the idea that we’re trapped in a linear chronology from which we cannot escape, racking up regrets, mistakes, and old-age as we go
“Match Point” Missed the Mark
Woody Allen’s big comeback? His best work in a decade? Genius rivaling “Annie Hall”!? What potent, absorbing, and thoroughly compelling version of “Match Point” were these critics watching? Look, it’s set in London, not New York! Listen, that crackling soundtrack is opera, not jazz! And wait a minute, there is no would-be Woody character in […]