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Cassandra's Dream

2007

Woody Allen

Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson, Hayley Atwell ...

6.2

19,643

Drama Cassandra’s Dream is the story of two brothers, their problems (blind ambition and compulsive gambling), their family, their women, their romance, passion and their chasing of dreams which end in terrible tragedy. It is a movie of the same type as Match Point set in contemporary London and it’s environs and full of suspense and tension. In this case the brothers are working class and brilliantly acted by Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"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."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"McGregor and especially Farrell bring genuine emotional commitment to their roles (...) [But Allen] brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie does work, and involves us, but then the lads run smack into an ending that is, to me, completely possible but highly unsatisfactory. Its problem is its sheer blundering plausibility. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"[It] is a succession of ill-staged scenes, mostly involving static two-shots in which characters look awkwardly at each other as they exchange ill-written dialogue"	NEG
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"A relatively easy sit, thanks to energetic perfs by Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, pic still fails to satisfy fully on any level"	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"We may finally be seeing confirmation of what many have suspected for years: that Woody Allen's period of greatness as a filmmaker is over (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"A clumsy, clichéd morality play that may actually represent the lowest point of Allen's recently chequered career (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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