And while “Blue Jasmine” is rather less idyllic than the writer-director’s previous creative high point, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” it superficially recalls that 2008 comedy in charting ...

Blue Jasmine is no Purple Rose of Cairo or like any of Woody Allen’s earlier, funnier stuff. It is somber and bitter, almost too much to enjoy. But since Allen is in the director’s chair ...

In "Blue Jasmine," that "something" is Cate Blanchett, whose magnetic but heartbreaking performance as a woman adrift rescues Allen's otherwise rudderless tragi-comedy.

Cate Blanchett plays Jasmine in Woody Allen's latest work (* * * ½ out of four; rated PG-13; opens Friday in select cities), and her bravura performance is tinged with haughtiness, dry humor and ...

Artists can get their inspiration from anywhere — including, of course, from other great works. So it is with Woody Allen’s dazzling tightrope-walk of a drama, “Blue Jasmine,&#822… ...

“Blue Jasmine,” Allen’s drama about a wealthy woman in the midst of a life crisis in contemporary San Francisco, and “Elysium,” Blomkamp’s sci-fi myth about a planet in the midst of a ...

Blue Jasmine opens Aug. 2, and is rated PG-13 with a running time of 98 minutes. Watch the trailer here.

Review: ‘Blue Jasmine’ a bleak but moving gem 1 / 39 Zac Barnett of American Authors is seen on set for a video shoot on Oct. 26, 2014, in Dickson, Tenn. (Rick Diamond / Getty Images) 2 / 39 ...

“Blue Jasmine’’ may sound like a topical satire, but it isn’t really. It’s a character study of an obnoxious, selfish and supremely self-absorbed woman oblivious to the pain she inflicts ...

Now with his new film, “Blue Jasmine,” Allen is back in the United States (San Francisco and New York specifically), and romantic comedy is the furthest thing from his mind.

This weekend proved just that as Allen’s latest film, “ Blue Jasmine,” scored him his best-ever opening per-screen average, with $102,128 from just six locations in New York and L.A.