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61
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Cassandra's Dream
The Weinstein Company
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Ewan McGregor,
Colin Farrell,
Tom Wilkinson,
Sally Hawkins,
and
Hayley Atwell
Set in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results. (Weinstein Company)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
|
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Woody Allen
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Woody Allen
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 27, 2008
Theatrical: January 18, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Post
Kyle 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.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen 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.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In thematic terms, Cassandra's Dream could be looked at as a rebuttal to "Crimes and Misdemeanors."

75
Boston Globe
Wesley 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.

70
Time
Richard 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.

70
The New York Times
Manohla 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.

70
The New Yorker
David 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.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William 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.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's not Allen's weakest work, not by far. But its impact is shockingly superficial.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What we get are themes and variations on previous good work, to lessening effect.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Like so many late-period Allens, it leaves behind the feeling that he's made this movie before, but better.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The identical premise is used in Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," which is like a master class in how Allen goes wrong.

50
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Feels like one of Allen's laziest pieces of writing and direction, leaden with heavy metaphor and characters who rarely make it beyond the archetype--marionettes in a miserablist puppet theater.

50
Variety
Derek Elley
Like a tragic overture played at the wrong tempo and slightly off-key, Woody Allen's London-set Cassandra's Dream sends out more mixed signals than an inebriated telegraphist.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This is a lame psychological thriller with an obvious story trajectory. It's a wannabe film noir with no atmosphere whatsoever.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Allen is obsessed with the notion of getting away with murder, mulling over which personalities can shoulder the psychological burden of killing without remorse, while others crumble under the pressure. The problem is, you don’t feel the human sweat and strain in Cassandra’s Dream, despite game work from Farrell and McGregor.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
An uninspired if perfectly watchable drama.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A psychological thriller in serious need of both psychology and thrills, Cassandra's Dream is a wan, exceedingly minor drama by Woody Allen, who has started to recycle himself in London the way he had long been recycling his New York City pictures.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The Coen brothers might have pulled this off, but it's out of Allen's faltering reach.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
There's not a believable character, nor line of convincing dialogue to be found.

42
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Allen's latest, his 42nd effort as a director, is the work of an artist devoid of ideas and energy. Perfunctorily staged and lazily written, it comes to life in only the briefest of spurts, usually when the ever-reliable Tom Wilkinson is on-screen.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward, outfitted with a standard-issue Philip Glass score.

40
Slate
Dana Stevens
Cassandra's Dream is not unredeemably bad. MacGregor and Farrell hack away at their implausible dialogue with admirable intensity (though when Terry starts to descend into mental illness, Farrell touches his limits as an actor).

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
As writer, Allen offers lazy plotting, poor characterization, dull scenes and flat dialogue.

38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The thrills are few and the expository dialogue tediously overwhelming in this preachy cautionary tale about getting too big for one's britches.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Farrell is quite good, though it's hard to buy the Scottish McGregor and the Irish Farrell as brothers. But mostly, the film feels rudderless, almost as if it's been directed on autopilot.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Instead of offering a perspective that, at the very least, laments a world where the flow of money hurts otherwise good people, Allen simply pushes the movie into an uncertain sinkhole between morality play and black comedy.

30
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
At this point, I guess we should just applaud Allen for his work ethic. Even at the ripe, old age of 72, he’s still making movies at the rate of one a year, come rain or come shine. The problem, of course, is that he doesn’t make good movies at the rate of one a year. In fact, by my count, he hasn’t made a good movie for almost a decade (1999’s "Sweet & Lowdown").

30
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Cassandra's Dream, an earnest meditation on greed, desire, murder and class struggle, is one of Woody Allen's funniest movies in years -- except Allen doesn't know it.

25
Premiere
Eric Alt
Takes a long time to say nothing new, which is a shame because it wastes fine performances across the board (it's a nice reminder that Farrell, can, in fact, act), and, well, a really effective score by Philip Glass.


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