Smart, tense, but not quite 'Crimes and Misdemeanors'

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2010)

Intelligent, tense, frosty drama with thriller overtones.
It's very good, but three things hold it back from being flat out terrific: 1) Scarlett Johanssen is fair in a role that needed somebody great. She's sexy all right, but there's a necessary layer of complexity missing. 2) There are some big logic holes in the last 1/3 that rely on us buying a lot of coincidence and 3) Allen has basically already made the same film much more deeply and inventively in Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Still, for all it's flaws, one of the better and more interesting films of 2005.