It's not Dostoyevsky, but neither is it a shopworn trifle. It is, if you will excuse the literary metaphor, a good read.

| Mar 22, 2021

The storyline is habitual territory for Allen, mixing average, down-on-their-luck people with criminal opportunities for remediation.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Farrell flexes his acting muscles by offering a more vulnerable performance than one might expect.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

By no means is this lukewarm drama Woody Allen's worst work, but it's no dream, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2009

Everything is utterly disengaged

| Aug 27, 2009

Farrell and McGregor bring much to their roles...to make Cassandra's Dream an effective and chilling ride.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2009

Cassandra's Dream is, in fact, not the worst film in the Woodman's oeuvre. But it does tend to underline his weaknesses.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 6, 2009

It's enough to make you pine for the good old days -- back when life was only partly ironic and Woody was totally funny.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2009

Woody Allen still insists on making movies at the rate of one a year, but he clearly needs to slow down. A lot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

At this point, I guess we should just applaud Allen for his work ethic.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

These characters not only don't talk like working-class Londoners, they don't talk like anyone.

| Oct 18, 2008

Disappointing, badly overwritten drama from Woody Allen, rendered almost unwatchable by dreadful Cockney accents from McGregor and Farrell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: A- | Oct 18, 2008

Allen is notorious for not giving his actors explicit instructions, and yet somehow this worked wonders for Farrell, who has never seemed so naked, so clear and so unencumbered as he does here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

The problem is, you don't feel the human sweat and strain in Cassandra's Dream, despite game work from Farrell and McGregor. There are plenty of ideas and themes and no people of distinctive interest to enliven them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

By the time the blokes played by McGregor and Farrell get around to confronting their misdeeds, they're the only ones who care.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2008

Although all the performances are remarkable, the actors can't break free from the too neat-and-tidy script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A clumsy, clichéd morality play that may actually represent the lowest point of Allen's recently chequered career.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Woody Allen's neurotic-speak works wonders coming from a New Yorker, but coming from a Brit? Not so much.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2008