IRRATIONAL MAN (2015) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Woody Allen
Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey,
Jamie Blackley, Betsy Aidem, Ethan Phillips
Recycled Woody. Here's a convenient checklist. A protagonist getting away with murder (or trying to). Smug intellectuals discussing arcane points of philosophy. An older man in a relationship with a younger woman. (Bet you didn't see that one coming.) Emma Stone modeling another closetful of cute schoolgirl outfits. Had enough? Joaquin Phoenix plays a college professor with a prominent pot belly and an equally prominent drinking problem. Stone and Parker Posey play two smart women who inexplicably find him adorable. As good as they are, and as good as they look, it's all kind of a yawn, and the music ("The In Crowd" by Ramsey Lewis played over and over) gets tiresome. You know the saying, "Everything old is new again"? Not this time.
