Blue Jasmine Reviews

The plotting is wooden, the flashbacks lazy, the adoption device a bad joke, and as always, everyone stammers like Woody.

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The law of averages catches up with Woody Allen

Full Review | Original Score: 5

For a film that starts as a 'fish out of water' comedy, it's not that funny, instead feeling more disjointed and all over the place in terms of tone and even dull at times.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Allen is a famously hands-off director, and while this method succeeds on occasion, too many scenes in Blue Jasmine betray a directorial negligence.

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Much as I love the performances here, the film just generally leaves a sour taste.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

[VIDEO ESSAY] Allen's busy attempt at putting more drama than comedy on his narrative scales is a depressing affair all around.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

If you don't buy this stuff you don't buy it, though millions do and perhaps millions will.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine finds the almost-80-year-old filmmaker in fine form as a director of actors, but he undermines that skill with a terribly structured and under-thought screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Allen observes Jasmine's allure and disease without penetrating her soul. That makes for a movie that is both intimate and disinterested, as if Jasmine were a flailing insect in a barren terrarium.

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None of the characters seem to be human, but rather objects conditioned by a series of tactical tragedies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Blanchett's lavish, almost operatic turn as Jasmine sloshes against the sides of this insubstantial movie like liquid in a too-small container (maybe the room-temperature Stoli Jasmine is continually downing).

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After all the great things I'd heard, I felt like I must've stumbled into the wrong theater as I watched the sloppy, misanthropic sitcom that is Blue Jasmine

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Very Unhappy Movie

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

If only this performance was in a different movie, one more at sync with the panic that glints in Blanchett's eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Only Andrew Dice Clay, in a small role as Ginger's Low-Class(TM) onetime husband, pierces the movie's highly polished bubble world; he comes off as a person whose veins run with blood rather than some liquefied director's conceit.

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A freak show whose alternately compelling and repulsive heroine can't disguise the fact that it's a movie by a sour old guy who no longer likes anything or anyone and who also, more damningly, just isn't interested.

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Arguably [Allen's] meatiest film since 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanours.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The exquisite Blanchett amazes, bringing brittleness and vulnerability to a woman on the edge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

I'm not sure how much Woody had to do Blanchett's the performance: She gives the character some depths I suspect he never considered. She's also grand and showy and over-the-top that overtakes the whole film. It's impossible to look away from her.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Allen's latest picture...possesses a script that is at times clunky and uneven, but features an outstanding firecracker turn from Cate Blanchett that has "Oscar-worthy" written all over it in flames.

Full Review | Original Score: B+