Cafe Society aims to be light and frothy, but feels more like a stale cream puff. It looks enticing, but lacks anything fresh or substantial. [Full review in Japanese]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 31, 2017

It's uneven, it's empty, and it's redundant.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 21, 2017

It's as if Allen has decided that near enough is good enough. He's famous for making a movie a year; after so many great films, that may now be too often.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2016

Unlike his earlier work or more recent gems like Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris, Caf Society is mostly froth with little substance. But that's not to say it isn't an entertaining diversion, after all, we all want fairy floss sometimes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2016

When the credits roll, you feel that yes, you've had an enjoyable time and watched something very pretty, but are also aware that in under a week you won't be able to remember a single character name.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2016

As if to compensate for the fact the basic material is, frankly, thin, Allen and his technical team have made certain that visually this is one of his most satisfying films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2016

It's not in the same league as Allen's finest work, but nor is it a honking misfire like Magic in the Moonlight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2016

You'll end up feeling about the film like Bobby about Los Angeles -- "half-bored, half-fascinated." And that's a pretty poor average, even for two poorly stitched-together films.

| Sep 2, 2016

Allen's script throws together familiar elements (ruthless hoodlums, respectable hypocrites, insecure film buffs) but lacks pace, belly-laughs or texture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2016

[Allen] has so little faith in his cast that he outlines each character's feelings... before his actors have had a chance to work their magic. That is downright disrespectful when you have hired a collaborator as expressive as Stewart.

| Sep 1, 2016

If we must have works of comedy-drama fluff from this once great filmmaker - and these years it seems we must - they might as well ravish the senses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Notable for a superb Kristen Stewart performance, this entertaining lament to old Hollywood and lost love sits between major and minor Woody.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Ponderous and light, though it comes into its own with the heartening climax.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2016

Like the wine Bobby opens on his first real date with Vonnie, it just needed some time to breathe.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2016

A cut above most everything else that passes for comedy these days.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2016

Cafe Society is mainly a small and unnervingly familiar private drama that is never funny enough nor smart enough to justify its anachronistic style.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2016

If it doesn't reach the heights of Woody's best - 2013's "Blue Jasmine" was his last great film - it still has several rich touches, including a luminous performance by Kristen Stewart.

| Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2016

"I'm kind of half-bored, half-fascinated," Eisenberg tells his bro over the long-distance line, and the sentiment could also apply to the movie - although Storaro's sumptuous cinematography makes even its mundane moments enchanting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2016

A love story drenched in nostalgia, "Caf Society" is a film of rare beauty.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2016

Maybe Woody Allen waited too long to make "Caf Society"; it seems, weirdly, to be an uninspired remake of itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2016