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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 52% Rotten Page   1   1.5/5 "Trying to balance the demands of his well-meaning motives with the requirements of the genre leaves Allen unsettled and ineffective, two words that encompass the creative drought evident in Cassandra's Dream."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "A fair but far from brilliant Woody Allen effort."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij B+ "Allen doesn't breeze through this biblical tale of wicked brothers without exploring all possibilities of guilt, and while it can make the whisky-soaked picture feel three days long, it does nothing to dilute the essential dread that Allen writes so well."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf "Allen's writing here is so lacking in vigor and purpose that much of the film seems to be on nothing more than autopilot, a faded and tissue-paper-thin retread from a filmmaker who should know better."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti C- "Nearing the end of his career, Woody Allen has become a hit-or-miss director with considerably more misses."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2.5/4 "Are we supposed to be charmed, or shocked, by this? Allen doesn't seem to know."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 3/4 "An exceedingly well acted and sporadically electrifying little thriller."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Cassandra's Dream is like a dream, all right—a bad one, made by an aging filmmaker who, sadly, simply doesn't have the same magic he once did."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "If the condescending Allen doesn't offer a context for Ian and Terry's behavior it's because he feels covetousness is a given for the lower-class, and so Cassandra's Dream is simply content reprimanding the brothers for not knowing their place."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B+ "It's alive with energy and ideas, not to mention good old-fashioned suspense and tragedy."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "If Cassandra's Dream doesn't have the heft of Match Point, mostly due to an ending that tries too hard, I'd argue that it's a much more human film."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C+ "Not a bad film, but it does seem to be rather an unecessary one...middle-grade late Allen, which means watchable but little more."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A mediocre Woody Allen drama about class, money, sex, and crime."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B+ "Allen [is] like an old uncle at a holiday gathering, telling the same old story year after year, but it's such a good story and he tells it so well (and, hell, you love the guy) that you can't help but want to hear him tell it again and again."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2/4 "With Cassandra's Dream, we may finally be seeing confirmation of what many have suspected for years: that Woody Allen's period of greatness as a filmmaker is over."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "The latest London-based Woody Allen movie is marked by Colin Farrell's best performance in years, and a sluggish, predictable script that covers some familiar crimes and misdemeanors."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "Strong performances, especially from the never-better Farrell. This might be the first time I've watched him and not been completely distracted by that big black caterpillar above his eyes."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 3/5 "Me ton Phillip Glass na toy bgazei ti misi doyleia ap' tin ihitiki mpanta, o Woody Allen rihnei mia diaforetiki matia sto thema toy thanatoy, anazitontas ton sto esoteriko toy zontanoy, meso tis allagis poy epiferei sto eksoteriko toy, i dolofonia tis ith"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis C "Woody is strip mining his old material - Cassandra's Dream is a pallid retread of Match Point on a par with Hitchcock's lesser exercises."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/3 "Aunque sin duda es una buena película, a lo largo de sus casi dos horas hay algún momento en el que Cassandra no es la única en tener sueño"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta B "Cassandra's Dream is not a top-notch Woody Allen film, but this dark drama is a worthy addition to the director's career-long search for meaning in a world where randomness and cruelty often reign."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "This no-fuss, bare-bones crime drama is old-fashioned in a way that's crisp and refreshing..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "Acaba se boicotando graças ao desfecho simplista e artificial."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "The good news about Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream" is that it is nowhere near as bad as his recent string of duds. The bad news is that it is nowhere near as good as his best work."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 5/10 "A clutch of disturbingly weak performances stumbling over uncharacteristically terrible dialogue."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see reivew"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 52% Rotten Page   1