Cassandra's Dream
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: January 18, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
14
Negative:
6
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88
New York PostKyle Smith
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. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
In thematic terms, Cassandra's Dream could be looked at as a rebuttal to "Crimes and Misdemeanors." Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie is actually a softer treatment of the similar sibling anguish in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Allen isn't enough of a great dark artist to pull off a full-scale tragedy the way Lumet does. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Allen's latest, Cassandra's Dream, is one of his debonair ''small'' entertainments, the closest that he has come to doing a tidy, no-frills, down-and-dirty genre thriller. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Schickel
It is a talkative film, rather earnest in its tonalities, not at all a deft, witty or well-paced. On the other hand, it is, for Allen, a comparatively rare excursion into lower-class life. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Ewan McGregor’s bright-eyed Ian, following in the footsteps of characters in Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Match Point,” is a study in guilt-free violence. But Colin Farrell’s Terry is something new. Terry is a decent guy with many weaknesses, and, after the crime is committed, Farrell gives him a piteous self-loathing that is very touching. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Woody Allen’s latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn’t just stop making comedies once and for all. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It's not Allen's weakest work, not by far. But its impact is shockingly superficial. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
What we get are themes and variations on previous good work, to lessening effect. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
This 38th Allen film (and third in a row to be set in London) is a drama about two brothers that's so heavy in tone it seems inspired by Greek tragedy and the grimmest '40s film noir. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski. Read full review
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