Paunchy and laconic, Joaquin Phoenix mumbles and mopes his way through the first half of Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, seeming to channel Morrissey from his first ragged moment onscreen as the self-flagellating miserablist Abe Lucas. Abe is a radical philosophy professor newly installed at a leafy Ivy League college, and he takes the world’s existential questions a bit too … [Read more...]