Cafe Society aims to be light and frothy, but feels more like a stale cream puff. It looks enticing, but lacks anything fresh or substantial. [Full review in Japanese]

It's uneven, it's empty, and it's redundant.

It's as if Allen has decided that near enough is good enough. He's famous for making a movie a year; after so many great films, that may now be too often.

Woody Allen's 'Café Society' has huge appeal in Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg's lively performances but the laughs dry up early and make way for a convoluted second half that quickly overwhelms the strength of its earlier sections.