"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen

Film TIME has the first proper review I've seen of Woody Allen's latest, Cassandra's Dream and echoes what I've been saying about the man's films for over a decade:

"There was a time in his career when Allen's lurches toward seriousness seemed to a lot of people unearned. He himself satirized that take on those films as early as 1980's Stardust Memories. But he's over 70 now — difficult as that is for some of us to believe — and he has fully earned the right to address us in any voice he chooses."

People seem desperate for Woody to return to the style of filmmaking he gave up on somewhere in the early nineties instead of simply enjoying what he's bringing us now. Such as that scene in Match Point ...