that i wanted to add a dissenting voice and a dissenting vote. this addendum gets me to the required 10 lines.

"Dreams." Sure, it draws from all the same fire Woody's played with before, but I found this to be, in many ways, the best punctuation mark possible for such a distinguished career. A very intelligent delight from start to finish - balanced, nuanced, funny, bittersweet, tragic, and insightful. A great late symphony. Bravo again, Mr. Allen.

carries with it something from a previous one, be it a song, a concept or some colour, sort of like a musical concept album that all ties in somehow. It is so deep in fact, that I am starting to feel the effects of some kind of spiritual occult power that Woody Allen possesses. He is THAT good! At its base though is always an incredible innocent humor, the one quality that makes all the harsh ugly realities of life enjoyable and worth living. This film isn't anything new or unique but it is another piece of the jigsaw in one of the most beloved Director's valuable creative archive. Thank you Woody for giving us a reprieve in this abyss of suffering!!

beautiful. It's not his best, god knows he has done a lot of great work, but it's by far his most "pure" work to date.Is delusions the only plays you can find happiness? Is the ideas of love and friendship simply a charade we hide behind? Do we simply get bored of each other? You know there's at least some truth here, but though I'm not ready to accept it all the very thought of it gives me chills.Conveyed with such fabulous performances, particularly from Gemma Jones, and as is often the case with Allen, one heck of a script, Allen creates the perfect atmosphere. To put it in the simplest way possible - this is pretty close to being the perfect feel bad movie.

to have ushered in a new period in Allen's work. The humor is more wry than laugh-out-loud though I did laugh out loud a lot for the wonderful Whatever Works, a movie that seems to sum up so many of his career-long preoccupations ; there's a Prospero-like tone, a rueful detachment that brings a bemused perspective to humanity's foibles. To put it bluntly, these are the films of an old man, and as someone who's pushing 60 myself, I find them quite wise and engaging. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is unlikely to appeal to younger audiences and critics , just as his anarchic early comedies didn't appeal to an older crowd at that time, but I enjoyed it very much. The film is a wry meditation on the messiness of life and the follies of aging. Tellingly, although it's ostensibly a comedy, the only characters ending up with a hopeful future minor spoiler alert, although I'll be very vague about it are the two who are most thoroughly deluded. I had only two quibbles, both related to the soundtrack. First, the voice-over narration eventually proves to be too "on the nose" as Hitchcock would say , and the actor reading it projects a wiseacre persona that I found grating and pushy. Second, although I know how important Dixieland jazz is to Allen--maybe he hears it as the soundtrack of *his* life--for my money, he's used it once too often in his films, and in this case it gives some scenes a jokey quality that they would have been better off without. In both these respects, the soundtrack is occasionally and unnecessarily elbowing us in the ribs to say "This is a comedy!" Otherwise, though, I heartily recommend the movie, and I predict it will eventually be well regarded, just as for example the reputation of the initially reviled Stardust Memories has gone up over the years.

and is now engaged to a prostitute Lucy Punch ,and her mother, who is trying to recover from her divorce and is seeing a psychic.I was pretty interested in these characters. I like how there's a lot going on. This is your typical Woody Allen film: People who do bad things and in the end get what they deserve. And I like it. I like the lessons that Allen has been teaching us for years.The lesson once again is this: If you do bad things, karma is bound to find you. Though I feel the film's resolution is half missing, I still really enjoyed his latest film for what it was. It's not that I didn't enjoy his last film, Whatever works.Whatever works, for me, was a little too ridiculous, and went a little too far. But You will meet a tall dark stranger was his best film since One of his masterpeices, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I really enjoyed it, and I think you should give it another chance on DVD.A-

grown-up relationships, aging and the fear of death, and the lies we tell ourselves to get through it all? Or deal with the paradox that humans seem to need something to believe in, and yet that same belief can also lead us astray? Or give great older actors like Anthony Hopkins and Gemma Jones really meaty roles? As long as Allen keeps asking questions, he'll remain a voice worth listening to.

dra-medies. His favorite and constant themes of lives and deaths of the relationships, of growing older and refusing to accept it, of trying to postpone the inevitable meeting with a "tall dark stranger", of struggle to find the reason in a tale, "full of sound and fury", are all here. But he knows how to look at the familiar material from the unusual angle by mixing masterfully humor and seriousness, light touch and insight in the right proportions to explore the desires, longings, and motivations of the characters. One of the themes Allen was interested while working on the Tall Dark Stranger was faith in something because it is for humans to prefer the power of self-delusions over the darkness of bitter truths. He said: "This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't." Sounds too serious but it is Allen's film, and is ironic, witty, and light. I ask myself why I love Allen's films so much and always wait for them impatiently. One of the reasons, he makes them for adults and about adults. His target audiences want to see a clever intelligent film without being manipulated or spoon fed. I admire Allen for respecting his viewers: "I never write down to them. I always assume that they're all as smart as I am . . . if not smarter". Or, more likely, I love his films because the beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and my eyes are always open to the beauty of his films. They are so perfectly constructed and framed. They look and sound terrific. While watching them, I don't understand how can they not be liked and admired by everyone? His short films are not small to me. I need them and I always will.

forward to get their lives and relationships sorted out. Allen didn't spend much time analyzing the various loves and consequences, more just saying here they are, you can laugh at them if you wish. I laughed a little bit.I found that Anthony Hopkins and Lucy Punch stood out of this all-star cast. Hopkins' character, nearing 70, married the much younger Punch and joined a gym after suffering his mid-life crisis. Antonio Banderas played a gallery owner and I was quite impressed with his subtle comedy and muted sexual presence. Josh Brolin played the neurotic writer that Allen himself would have played in earlier years. At first he seemed out-of-place, but I think that's part of the joke, and like Banderas, I was impressed with his subtle comedy.I am a Woody Allen devotee, and although I found "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" lacks most of his intelligent wit, it still had his subtle jabs at his characters who each represent facets of today's society. And I still recommend it because it's better than most other films you can find.