The one towering achievement of Blue Jasmine that is worth your attention is the lead performance of Cate Blanchett.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2024

Allen has made an unforgettable character study of a fascinating, despicable, sympathetic, and engaging figure and those around her.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 25, 2022

Blanchett visualizes her struggles through every fidget, every bead of sweat, and every outburst. She’s not a likable character by any stretch but she’s simply mesmerizing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Cate's performance is something all its own, splitting the seams of what might have been something entirely else, in somebody else's hands

Full Review | Jul 2, 2021

Blue Jasmine is essentially a careless, mean-spirited piece.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2021

Darker than most of Allen's recent output, Blue Jasmine doesn't go for laughs - very often anyway - but is an astutely crafted psychological character study.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Purposefully structuring a film to deprive viewers of a precise beginning, middle, and end is a risky game that doesn't always pay off.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2020

Blanchett is the true author of Blue Jasmine. It's a towering performance that remains fixed on your brain.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 4, 2020

The film ultimately depends upon and is rewarded by Cate Blanchett's insightful and emotionally resonant performance as Jasmine.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 3, 2020

Jasmine could have been the same neurotic type we've seen in previous Woody Allen films, but Blanchett makes the character just as much her own creation as it is his.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2020

With 'Blue Jasmine', Allen reaches another new mark in his legendary directorial career, delivering one of his best dramas in recent years. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020

Cate Blanchett is over the moon in the best Woody Allen drama since Match Point.

Full Review | Jun 19, 2020

Blanchett, channeling Lauren Bacall, is so genuinely affecting that she may as well have been some tragically elegant Tennessee Williams' victim transported into the midst of Allen.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2019

It's the kind of performance Oscars are made of, but beyond any thought of awards or accolades, Blanchett delivers a once-in-a-lifetime kind of achievement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

An efficacious character study of somebody truly fallen.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2019

Though Allen opted to not endow Blue Jasmine with his travelogue visual flare that I've grown fond of, Blanchett provides so much to chew on and gawk at that she single-handedly makes the film a certifiably significant work.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.4/10 | Apr 12, 2019

This may be Blanchett's best performance of her career in a film that is one of Allen's better works in recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2019

The fact that a film with this depth of tragedy works, despite being billed as a comedy, is a tribute to the brilliant performances of the cast and one of the most polished pieces of direction by Allen in recent times.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2019

Blanchett is a true force of nature; sozzled, depressed and on the verge of madness, it's the best work of her career.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2019

There are the raw materials for a piercing American tragedy, detailing the corrosive hubris of a certain type of moneyed class, but a far more studied and icier eye is needed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2019