Woody Allen

Woody Allen's Café Society feels like a love letter from the veteran filmmaker to a kinder, gentler time

Woody Allen's Café Society feels like a love letter from the veteran filmmaker to a kinder, gentler time

Don't bother with Woody's offering this year - it's far from his best. This one is full of reheated ideas that have blessed better efforts from him in the past.

This offering from Mr Allen is of a more brittle nature than his more recent works.

This year's offering from Mr Allen is of a more brittle nature than his more recent works.

Among his extensive (and mostly impressive) oeuvre, Woody Allen has two undeniable masterpieces. The first is Annie Hall.

Most of Allen's movies of the '70s and '80s never exceeded a 90-minute running time. Since then his films have become longer and his latest here stretches one's patience at times.

So now it's Owen Wilson's turn to adopt the Woody Allen role in the writer-director's latest offering, that of the flustered individual dealing awkwardly with his wayward lovelife and troubled entanglements.

So now it's Owen Wilson's turn to adopt the Woody Allen role in the writer-director's latest offering, that of the flustered individual dealing awkwardly with his wayward lovelife and troubled entanglements.

Woody Allen presents another of his typical roundelays of well-to-do characters experiencing troubled love lives and thwarted desires, back in sunny and picturesque London again.