Review of Café Society (2016) by Ginak — 02 Aug 2016

A movie without any convincing drama and so a major disappointment. It is beautifully colored and I thought Kristen Stewart gave a wonderful performance (she actually seemed conflicted), but all this did was highlight what a wooden performance Jessie Eisenberg gave.

Was he miscast or is this all he is capable of? But then you could say Steve Carrell was miscast too, except his performance was interesting from beginning to end, even though Allen didn’t give him much to work with.

In a way this movie is sad because Allen can still come up with interesting characters but all of them in this film were wasted because nothing much happened that anyone could really care about.