Though Woody Allen has limited his on-screen performances in recent years (he’s only cast himself once since 2006’s “Scoop”), it’s never been more obvious that the bespectacled iconoclast appears in all of his films. For Allen, the movies are not a place to escape but rather a place to reflect and refract, his characters offering a kaleidoscopic window into their creator’s kvetching soul.

Over the course of Allen’s 50-year career, he’s evinced a remarkable, Zelig-like capacity to bend any genre to his will – the only thing less believable than the fact that “Sleeper” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors” were made by the same man would be the idea that they weren’t.

It’s true that the best of Allen’s recent films…

Woody Allen proves that a nervous collapse and psychosis can be fun with the right actress. Jasmine, an awful upper-Manhattan socialite, is forced to relocate to San Francisco to live with her sister after falling into public disgrace, and in the process of trying to rebuild her life goes insane.

Rarely does a Woody Allen movie come out that cuts as deeply as Blue Jasmine. It has its finger on the pulse of contemporary life in a way that's totally disarming. These characters live in the immediate world, both rich and poor. In moments they even seem to be slightly ahead of the curve.

It's hard to consider the success of Blue Jasmine without simultaneously considering Blanchett's performance. She is…

It breaks my heart that Cate Blanchett acts her gorgeous face off in a film that does nothing to deserve her. Up until the last two minutes of Blue Jasmine , I was ready to sing its praises. I was ready to say I loved it! That it was one of my favorite films of the year! And then... it ended. I realized what I thought the film was heading toward was never going to come. The pay off on getting me to understand and empathize with this woman in the midst of a heartbreaking downward spiral never existed. The intention turned out to be merely an excuse to turn someone's real life pain, suffering, and sickness into a reason…

Buena película de Woody Allen con una magistral actuación de Cate Blanchett. Es muy común que en todas las películas de Allen uno de los protagonistas sea nervioso e histérico como los papeles que él interpreta, y es muy común que el actor o la actriz en turno hagan una imitación de Allen. Pero en este caso, Blanchett crea un personaje con muchos matices, y su lado nervioso e histérico no se parece a Woody Allen, y eso es algo que me gustó desde el principio.
La actriz toma los estupendos diálogos de Allen y crea su propio y enriquecido personaje, con una cantidad de matices muy interesantes, realistas y hasta divertidos. Mucha gente marca un "regreso" de Allen, pero…