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

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

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

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

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

Although McGregor and Farrell produce some occasionally spirited moments, particularly in the earlier scenes, they are little more than walking and talking schemes, their choices based entirely on socioeconomic impulses.

| Jul 16, 2008

While Allen's Match Point was an interesting switching of gears ... his new mantle of Patricia Highsmith-esque crime chronicler is wearing thin as well.

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

There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy.

| Mar 12, 2008

After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward.

| Jan 31, 2008

McGregor and Farrell deepen this slight thriller into a film that feels almost grandly philosophical, even though you know that when the lights come on, the spell will break

| Original Score: B- | Jan 29, 2008

Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 23, 2008

There's still some snap in Woody's writing, and still some sharpness to his black humor.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2008

This isn't filmmaking; it's thesis defending.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2008

[Delivers] a sharply effective jolt of unease. It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2008

A dreary tale of two loser brothers who agree to become assassins in exchange for financial help from their corrupt uncle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2008

If Frida Kahlo can paint 55 self-portraits, Woody Allen can make several versions of the same movie. It's only fair.

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