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| Blanchett in Blue Jasmine is beyond brilliant, beyond analysis. This is jaw-dropping work, what we go to the movies hoping to see, and we do. Every few years. |
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| (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle) |
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| Blanchett's bravura performance is tinged with haughtiness, dry humor and madness. It's one of the year's finest, most complex portrayals, in one of Allen's best films in years. |
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| (Claudia Puig, USA Today) |
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| This also benefits from one of the strongest casts he's assembled in years: Cate Blanchett is exceptional in the lead, and there are strong supporting turns from Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, and (in a surprise dramatic turn) Andrew Dice Clay. |
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| (Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader) |
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| Blanchett owns this movie as thoroughly as her character owns her delusions. |
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| (Ann Hornaday, Washington Post) |
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| The movie's observations about economic disparity are cloaked in zestful comedy that's broad or stiletto-sharp. |
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| (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal) |
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| For all of Blue Jasmine's darkness, the movie is among the filmmaker's most emotionally affecting. |
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| (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times) |
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| Sooner or later a major film-maker has to give us someone we will never forget. Jasmine is that someone. |
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| (David Thomson, New Republic) |
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| This is the strongest, most resonant movie Woody Allen has made in years. |
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| (David Denby, New Yorker) |
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| Head-and-shoulders above every other film I have seen so far this year. It deserves nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and a couple of technical award nominations, as well. Just see it. |
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| (David Kempler, Big Picture Big Sound) |
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| Allen's best film in years, astute, humane and shot through with keen observations on the state of the world. |
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| (Simon Braund, Empire) |
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| Here it is: the real deal, an actual Woody Allen film, the kind we once looked forward to, took for granted, then despaired of ever seeing again. After all those false dawns, non-comebacks and semi-successful Euro jeux d'esprit, Allen has produced an outstanding movie, immensely satisfying and absorbing, and set squarely on American turf: that is, partly in San Francisco and partly in New York. |
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| (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian) |
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| You have to dig deep in Allen's back catalogue to find a single performance as affecting and well-judged as the one Cate Blanchett delivers. |
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| (Dave Calhoun, Time Out) |
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, Sally Hawkins 
