Irrational Man (2015)

Woody Allen’s Irrational Man (2015) isn't your typical Allen flick, where some nerdy loser makes a fool of himself chasing after women. Instead, the film tackles the complexity of moral judgment and dissects the ideas of right and wrong through a murder. Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) is an aimless college professor who can't find purpose in life, despite having both his student Jill (Emma Stone) and chemistry professor Rita Richards (Parker Posey) throwing themselves at him. One day, him and Jill are sitting at a diner when a woman next to them at a restaurant explains that her evil ex-husband prevented her from having custody of their children thanks to a crooked judge (Tom Kemp). Abe, an intellectual who has been enduring an existential crisis, sees this as an opportunity to justify the murder of the judge since it would be doing some actual good for the world. The dark act in this dark comedy leads Abe to a happier place and solves the life crisis he was facing. But when an innocent man is blamed for the murder, Abe is faced with an even bigger moral conundrum. While not destined to be one of Woody Allen’s classics, Irrational Man does fork over the sexy dad bod in the form of a yummy and shirtless Joaquin Phoenix! Joaquin's lying in bed, pacing around, and just thinking about life. Mr. Man was thinking "how can Joaquin be so hot with a potbelly and a vicious case of clinical depression?" watching that scene! We guess there's nothing rational about how horny Irrational Man made us! Now if only we could have seen his Woody, maybe this would have been a hit!