Yep, it’s definitely a Woody Allen movie.
Remember the joke Woody Allen tells in Annie Hall about the two old women in the Catskills? The gist is this: One woman complains that the food is terrible, and the other replies, “I know, and such small portions.”
Allen’s films in this later part of his career are so innocuous, so wisplike, so slight, that while they’re not exactly terrible, they do make you feel like a Catskills grandma, given a stingy portion of something that’s not very good to begin with. Irrational Man is Allen’s latest, and it’s a lazy, mostly bad film with a handful of interesting ideas—but not enough to leave your brain feeling anything but undernourished…