Irrational Man (film)
Irrational Man is a 2015 American mystery comedy drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jamie Blackley, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, and Emma Stone.At lunch in a diner, Abe and Jill overhear a conversation in the next booth; a woman says she will lose her children in a custody battle because of an unethical judge in family court.The website's critics consensus reads, "Irrational Man may prove rewarding for the most ardent Joaquin Phoenix fans or Woody Allen apologists, but all others most likely need not apply.[18] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film two stars out of five, stating, "Irrational Man is another of the amiable but forgettable and underpowered jeux d'esprit that he produces with an almost somnambulist consistency and persistence.That makes it more dispiriting than other notorious Woody Allen misfires, like Celebrity and Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Scoop, where at least you could kind of see what the filmmaker was going for, and sense the movie lurching in a certain direction even as it kept stumbling over its shoelaces and crashing into things."[20] Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph stated, "The main problem is the philosophical purchase Allen thinks his film is gaining: far from profundity of any sort, it ultimately peddles the thesis that killing people out of daft, misplaced idealism isn't an especially wizard plan."[21] Richard Brody of The New Yorker added, "when the Dostoyevskian drama kicks in, Allen's venomous speculations bring to the fore a tangle of conundrums and ironies, as if the director, nearing eighty, already had one foot in the next world and were looking back at this one with derision and rue."[22] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film B grade, observing, "Now comes Irrational Man, a similar fusion of Allen's dominant modes that's decidedly more minor, but still a competent showcase of the way the productive filmmaker's voice remains effective with the right synthesis of material and cast.
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