On its face, Irrational Man, Woody Allen's latest film, is so fundamentally uninspired that a viewer almost immediately begins looking for subtext. This isn't the result of a genuine desire to ...

“Irrational Man” feels like a largely realized game of Clue. With classic old Hollywood rhythm, implausibly charming design and characters so precisely overdrawn and focused it’s impossible to take ...

Irrational Man begins in classic Woody Allen-style as an intensely cerebral study of a philosophy professor haunted by his own obsessive thoughts. Soon, as is the pattern in Allen's films, other ...

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Recent Woody Allen films like Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris represent a late-career renaissance for the now 79-year-old writer-director, a phenomenon that has occurred just as questions ...

Getting away with murder in a godless universe is a theme that has long compelled Woody Allen, from Crimes and Misdemeanors to Match Point. Allen sees this as a cosmic joke. And in Irrational Man, the ...

As it is, one clocks the affinities to Hitchcock (Rope in particular, another movie pondering notions of the "perfect murder") while placing this film in the same Allen camp as Match Point and Crimes ...