Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Woody Allen's Expressionist homage shot in gorgeous black-and-white by Carlo Di Palma is cinematographically stunning — easily the film's greatest achievement, evoking classic German Expressionism and early Kafka. The ensemble cast (Malkovich, Johansson, Farrow, Cusack, etc.) brings life to the material. However, the plot is deliberately thin and episodic, functioning more as a mood piece than a coherent narrative, and the ending feels abrupt and unsatisfying rather than meaningfully resolved. The novelty is moderate — it's a loving pastiche rather than a truly singular work, competently executed but ultimately more style than substance.