Even in middling form, Woody Allen still knows how to get a few licks in. Set in London, which energized his Match Point in 2005, Cassandra's Dream finds the Woodman mucking about in the moral quicksand of one of his best films, 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanors. Two Cockney brothers, Ian (Ewan McGregor) and Terry (Colin Farrell), are contemplating murder. Ian wants to dump the restaurant he runs with dear old dad and take off for Hollywood with wanna-be actress Angela (Hayley Atwell, a pale shadow…

Cassandra's Dream may be darker Woody Allen territory, but it's just as familiar--and just as mismatched with the distinctive cast.

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Woody Allen's neurotic-speak works wonders coming from a New Yorker, but coming from a Brit? Not so much. The British could very well be just as phobic as anyone else, but they are also repressed, and trying to force the neurosis out just doesn't ring as true. Nevertheless, Allen is bound and determined to film abroad these days and thus once again sets…