Blue Jasmine Reviews
Shadows on the Wall
The vibrant characters, jaggedly observant dialog and messy plot are thoroughly engaging.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Moviedex
Insightful, squirmingly funny and boasting an absolutely unmissable performance from first time Allen collaborator Cate Blanchett.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Observer [UK]
While the film may hold some viewers at arm's length, the performances are worthy of stand-up-and-cheer ovations all round.
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| Original Score: 4/5
3AW
Woody Allen's latter films just seem to get better and better...another A-grade movie to join Match Point, Midnight in Paris and Vicky Cristina Barcelona...a superb Cate Blanchett does some of her best film work to date.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Ooh Tray
The result's highly effective on a human level. If only the film had been set in the real world.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Smart, sophisticated and bound to win an Oscar nod or two, 'Blue Jasmine' is an outstanding Woody Allen movie about the fall from grace of a Hamptons socialite who begins to unravel after her husband loses a fortune.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Birmingham Mail
[Woody Allen has] captured an Oscar-contending, tour de force performance from the great Cate Blanchett.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
It's difficult to imagine anyone wresting the Academy Award from Blanchett's compellingly pathetic performance.
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| Original Score: A-
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Blanchett is being tipped for Oscar glory, and this is surely a very good, very committed performance (if a little self-consciously so).
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| Original Score: 8/10
Radio Times
With laughs derived from depression, death and denial, this is Allen at this tartest, tightest and most observant.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is London
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
A deliciously dark and richly entertaining comedy drama, it's as enjoyable as anything this year.
Irish Times
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mail [UK]
A riveting film, a humane but brutally frank character study, perfectly achieved despite its narrow objectives.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Express
Allen has frequently mined the fripperies of the monied elite for light comic effect but here he delves deep creating a masterfully compelling drama that nevertheless is frequently extremely funny.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sky Movies
A searing drama delivered with a compassionate, humane touch, Blue Jasmine is exhilarating, funny and heartbreaking, instantly taking its place alongside the best of Allen's work.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Little White Lies
A career-best Cate Blanchett dazzles in Woody Allen's heartbreaking missive.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ViewLondon
Blue Jasmine is the film die-hard Woody Allen fans have been waiting for, thanks to a superb, pointed script and terrific performances from a wonderful ensemble cast, including a sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated central turn from Cate Blanchett.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Financial Times
If you don't buy this stuff you don't buy it, though millions do and perhaps millions will.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flitting between the extravagance of Jasmine's former life and her undignified current climb down allows for a entertaining and insightful look at the depression of recession. There are of course, a few great Woody one-liners but the mood is blue.
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| Original Score: 8/10
