8/10
Woody Allen's last two movies were pretty fluff affairs - To Rome with Love was the instantly forgettable kind and Midnight in Paris was the excellent, Oscar-nominated kind. Based on that alone I wasn't totally prepared for Blue Jasmine, one of most nuanced, complex, and, well, depressing Allen movies in years. Everything you've heard about Cate Blanchett's performance is true and she could end up with the Oscar for it, but the cast as a whole is incredibly strong. It's to Allen's credit that Blanchett's Jasmine is so oblivious, ignorant, and downright unlikeable when you get down to it...yet you also manage to feel a considerable amount of empathy and pity for her. A very complex "anti-heroine" that I'll still be thinking about for a while afterwards.
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