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Café Society

2016

Woody Allen

Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively ...

6.4

24,461

Comedy. Romance LA, in the 30s. Young Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood looking to get a job in the office of his uncle, Phil (Steve Carell), a veteran and powerful agent. Bobby is the youngest son of a Jewish family in 1930s New York City; his elder sister Evelyn is a married school teacher, while his elder brother Ben is a gangster. Discontented with working for his father, a jeweler, Bobby decides to move to Hollywood, where he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A small fiction of amiable appeal and vibrancy which goes down as easily as a fizzy cocktail."	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"'Café Society' fizzes like vintage Woody Allen. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"There may be a limit to its success, since it’s one of those Allen films that keeps talking about passion instead of actually making the audience feel it."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d’ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro – yet always freighted by a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in Hollywood (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A bittersweet comedy of manners that sees Allen pushing the boat out stylistically and in narrative ambition, even as he treads familiar ground."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Buoyed by the nuanced performances of Stewart and Eisenberg, the 80-year-old Woody Allen creates a ravishing romance shot through with humor and heartbreak (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"In the best sense, 'Cafe Society' presents itself as an older director's film, dealing as it does with the difference between dreams and reality and the presence and persistence of regret"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Cafe Society' may not be Allen's most original work, but it's one of his snazziest efforts in some time (...) Eisenberg and Stewart maintain an endearing screen chemistry even though their romance never fully convinces"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Woody Allen has made 46 films, of which I've seen 46, and I'm not sure which of us is more tired of them. What I am sure of is that both of us will soon be forgetting 'Café Society' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It is, overall, an amusing little picture, with some inspired moments and some sour notes, a handful of interesting performances and the hint, now and then, of an idea."	NEU
United States	The Wrap	"That’s 'Café Society' in a nutshell: a bunch of artists doing what they do. Owning it. They’ve done it better, sure. They’ve done before, absolutely. But dammit if they don’t do it well"	POS

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