"you'd rather like this movie"

Film Woody Allen's latest, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, seems to have a release date for the UK, 18th March, just six months after its limited US run. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian lists it as his choice for 2011 and offers a lovely little preview:

"Fans should come to this film with a thought experiment: what if you didn't know it was by Woody Allen? What if this unassuming film was not required to bear the heavy burden of his reputation, and that of an army of pundits who have staked their own reputation on declaring Allen should quit? My guess is that you'd rather like this movie: it's a funny, offbeat exercise in irony that doesn't require any great emotional investment."

Having spent a large chunk of last year watching all of Woody's films I agree with the spirit of what Bradshaw is saying here. That his latest work might not always scale the heights of his heyday but at least they have something interesting to say and are better than most of the crap we're otherwise being fed from the US through the multiplexes.