“Cafe Society” (*** out of four) was a richly entertaining comedy set in the golden era of Hollywood in the 1930’s in which a naive young man from the Bronx (Jesse Eisenberg) moves to Hollywood to become a star and falls in love with the secretary (Kristen Stewart) of his powerful movie-mogul uncle (Steve Carrell) leading to complications with all of them. Director Woody Allen has been down this road before (“Bullets Over Broadway” comes to mind) but movie is loaded with funny one-liners and good chemistry and camaraderie from its three leads. Eisenberg is much more charismatic and less annoying than usual and Stewart’s usual one-note and one-expression performance is used to good effect here.

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