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Irrational Man

2015

Woody Allen

Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Jamie Blackley, Parker Posey ...

6.4

23,231

Drama. Mystery. Comedy On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Stands among the better entries of Allen's fourth-act career phase (...) A darkly humorous quasi-thriller explored with a deft lightness of touch."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a tongue-in-cheek mystery which is neither quite scary and serious enough to be suspenseful, nor witty or ironic enough to count as a comedy. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"A darkly funny, intellectually rigorous campus comedy (...) That conceit puts a fresh spin on a familiar premise."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A competent showcase of the way the productive filmmaker's voice remains effective with the right synthesis of material and cast."	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Not exactly a write-off, but nothing memorable, either, Irrational Man is a sardonic exercise in cynicism that will most likely appeal to the same pretentious art-house eggheads it's making fun of"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Allen has crafted a suspenseful mind-teaser that might feel too much like an intellectual exercise if Phoenix and Stone didn't infuse it with such raw humanity (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The horror of where rationalism can lead (...) hangs over 'Irrational Man' and helps hold you as does Mr. Phoenix, even with some bad writing and Mr. Allen’s narrative laxity and lack of interest in how real people live."	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"A Woody Allen film that the next one will make us forget"	NEG
United Kingdom	Graham Fuller Screendaily	"Woody Allen comes out with all guns blazing on his modestly appointed but fiercely intellectual thriller."	POS

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