Scoop

Faith in Woody Allen was restored for many with last winter’s steamy British thriller Match Point; now the director is reviving his comedic antics with a playful murder mystery. As Allen once again sets his story across the pond, Scarlett Johansson, his muse of the moment, plays an American journalism student in London who telepathically receives clues to a murderer’s identity during a magic trick. In order to catch the man known as the Tarot Card Killer, she naturally pairs up with the magician (thankfully, it’s in a platonic way, since he’s played by Woody). As can often befall a detective, even an amateur, she grows sweet on her suspect: a hot-to-trot aristocrat played by Hugh Jackman who is definitely humorous, but may or may not be homicidal.