http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/ir ... 201496955/Shooting for only the fifth time in CinemaScope (after “Manhattan,” “Anything Else,” “Blue Jasmine” and “Magic in the Moonlight”), Allen and cinematographer Darius Khondji make Newport look ever so lovely, dappled in sunlight and swathed in pastels.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/ ... iew/795347Woody Allen is in fine vintage form in Irrational Man, a slinky, jazz-infused existential teaser in which various themes from some of the veteran filmmaker's most memorable work dovetail into a darkly humorous quasi-thriller explored with a deft lightness of touch. Flavorfully set amid the historic architecture and hermetic atmosphere of a small New England college town, the film places Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix in the quintessential Allen character dynamic of a Pygmalion mentor relationship that turns sour. It ranks among the director's more pleasurable entertainments of recent years and should be a solid performer for Sony Pictures Classics following its Cannes launch.
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