You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Reviews
March 22, 2011
Elaborately plotted, perfunctorily directed, unevenly acted and short on verbal wit.
March 18, 2011
A narrator alerts us at the outset that this tale is (to quote Macbeth) "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". I suppose we should be thankful for the warning.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 17, 2011
It's interesting and worthwhile, with creative vitamins that are absent in so much of what fills the cinemas.
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| Original Score: 3/5
March 17, 2011
Frothy but uninvolving. Again.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 17, 2011
When I saw the words "Tin Ear Production Company" in the end credits, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or a piece of authorial honesty.
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| Original Score: 1/5
March 16, 2011
There's plenty of ambiguous intellectual heft lurking behind the curtain of mediocrity - so it's a pity it feels like it was dashed off in a few hours one afternoon.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 14, 2011
Still no signs of the master re-living past glories, but more than worthwhile for Allen diehards.
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| Original Score: 3/5
March 13, 2011
You will dislike this rubbish movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 31, 2011
The talented cast fails to gel into a dynamic ensemble: You just see actors going through familiar paces.
Original Score: 2/4
December 13, 2010
Woody Allen cranks out another formulaic interweave of romantic crushes, with old jazz on the soundtrack to supply some artificial gaiety.
October 15, 2010
I couldn't get away from these shrill, complaining people fast enough.
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| Original Score: 1/5
October 15, 2010
Classic Woody -- an ensemble cast of brilliant actors, a timeless story that could be set virtually anywhere and crisp writing and direction that neither lollygags or rushes.
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| Original Score: B+
October 15, 2010
Allen has been criticized for leaving some of the plot lines up in the air and several characters in the lurch. But he seems to be making a point: Neat Hollywood endings are as phony and dangerous as Cristal's ramblings.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
October 14, 2010
Unpleasant people behave selfishly in this latest trifle from Woody Allen, who once again manages to persuade A-list talent to help him make a C-list movie.
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| Original Score: C
October 9, 2010
Unpleasant people behave selfishly until it stops, rather than ends, in this latest trifle from Woody Allen, who once again manages to persuade A-list talent to help him make a C-list movie.
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| Original Score: C
October 8, 2010
Allens sex farces have lost their former snap, but the movies uncharacteristically long takes add a degree of intimacy and excitement that he rarely musters nowadays.
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| Original Score: B
October 8, 2010
Woody Allen may still be funny, but he's sure not much fun anymore.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
October 8, 2010
It's a highbrow romantic farce, without the laughs.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
October 7, 2010
It's as if the dour Interiors had been reworked by a more forgiving, generous filmmaker who wants to move beyond stereotypes and discover what he calls the "beautiful and ironic" aspects of life.
Original Score: 3/4
October 7, 2010
At once a cynical examination of infidelity and a sweet love story that rewards good people, Stranger is thoroughly entertaining ... and Allen's best film since Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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| Original Score: 3/4