Of all the great filmmakers, Woody Allen has the widest range between his best and worst work. He makes good and bad movies, and transcendent and fair movies, and then every so often he inflicts something like "Irrational Man" on the world, which is so awful you have to wonder if Allen wrote it himself or farmed it out to some look-alike cousin out to destroy him. True, it's no secret that great artists, like great batters in baseball, will sometimes hit home runs and sometimes strike out.