Written and directed by Woody Allen. 14A Woody Allen claims to ignore reviews, but you have to wonder with an anodyne effort like Wonder Wheel, set in 1950 on New York’s Coney Island. Bereft of ideas, the octogenarian writer/director recycles popular older ones, like the May/September romances and gangster subplots of innumerable Allen joints. It’s the whole megillah of Wonder Wheel, with Justin Timberlake’s arrogant lifeguard character Mickey subbing for Alvy as he plays the narrator and male protagonist. “Profound masterpiece” isn’t how anybody would describe Allen’s Wonder Wheel screenplay.

Source: thestar December 07, 2017 20:12 UTC