It's brilliantly watchable, if not mesmerising; and brilliantly performed, particularly by Cate Blanchett, who will knock your socks off, and may knock them off so explosively there is every chance you will never retrieve them again.

| Sep 5, 2018

Blue Jasmine weaponises Blanchett's elegant image against us, showing a character who is trying with all her might to maintain this glamour that is falling down around her. Seriously, she's amazing in this one.

| Aug 25, 2018

... what a fine way to revere one of Williams' most adapted dramas with a modern take that thrusts its slowly malfunctioning central character into a new situation that only hastens her demise.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2017

Happiness is shown to be elusive in this astute study of aspiration and delusion that leaves you hanging on a melancholy note. If this should prove to be [Woody] Allen's last film, he will have gone out on a high.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

In its basic situation can be heard the distant clang of A Streetcar Named Desire, though it's neither pastiche nor reprise, just a quietly respectful tribute.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 17, 2013

There is all this talent -- and so little reason for it in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

| Dec 17, 2013

Blanchett, wielding a stiff cocktail in one hand and a bottle of anti-anxiety pills in the other, gives her character a skillful shove from neurotic towards psychotic.

| Nov 4, 2013

A sharply observed, post-economic crash comedy-drama that boasts a formidable performance by Cate Blanchett and addresses such pertinent real-world concerns as class, gender and corporate criminality in urban America.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 4, 2013

The movie is a near-perfect capture of a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown without going off the deep end into a farce.

| Original Score: 7.8/10 | Nov 4, 2013

While the film may hold some viewers at arm's length, the performances are worthy of stand-up-and-cheer ovations all round.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2013

A propulsive drama set in New York and San Francisco about a woman's self-destruction as a result of her inability to look truthfully at her own life. It's a serious warning, brutal even.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2013

Though not quite the masterpiece some have claimed, the picture (often funny, but not a comedy) certainly delivers on emotion, sharp dialogue and toxic energy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2013

A career-best Cate Blanchett dazzles in Woody Allen's heartbreaking missive.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 26, 2013

If you don't buy this stuff you don't buy it, though millions do and perhaps millions will.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2013

Woody has snapped to wakefulness, his comic and dramatic synapses firing off with an old ease that's deeply gratifying. You needn't even place it in Allen's very top rank to call it his best in about two decades.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2013

Allen's best film in years, astute, humane and shot through with keen observations on the state of the world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2013

The exquisite Blanchett amazes, bringing brittleness and vulnerability to a woman on the edge.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2013

It is pure movie-going pleasure.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 19, 2013

Arguably [Allen's] meatiest film since 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanours.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2013

You have to dig deep in Allen's back catalogue to find a single performance as affecting and well-judged as the one Cate Blanchett delivers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2013