Tag Archives: Christopher Nolan

Oppenheimer review — Haunting atomic drama echoes through time

July 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Christopher Nolan | Written by Nolan, based on the book American Prometheus by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird | 180 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime The return of Nolan to serious, biographical work about men and war — following his spectacular Dunkirk — shows his ambition hasn't diminished one whit. This is a… Read More

A Decade of FITI reviews: Interstellar

February 16, 2022 flawintheiris

Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while. I may lightly edit these… Read More

A few thoughts on the future of going to the movies

December 19, 2020 flawintheiris

So, 2020. Not a great year, eh? We've all done our best to stay safe and amongst the uninfected, like we're living in a more deliberately paced version of Contagion. This while the death knell for movie-going has been sounding amongst the cinematic cognoscenti. Early in December Warner Bros, announced that their entire slate for… Read More

Tenet review — Nolan’s time-travel spy thriller almost too complex

August 27, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 150 min | Netflix Christopher Nolan's enormous, brilliant movies are never less than ambitious, and the best of them find a balance between the kinetic, the cerebral, and the passionate — I'm thinking of Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, even his Dark Knight trilogy. His newest blockbuster nails… Read More

Inception — 10th Anniversary review

August 17, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan | 148 min | Netflix and In Cinemas/IMAX As part of a month-long retrospective look at 10 years of this blog, I’m rewatching a few films from a decade back. I began writing FITI around Labour Day 2010, and though I'd seen Inception by then I never did a… Read More

Dunkirk review — Massive war picture delivers suspense, awe

July 21, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan | 106 min Film writers like me have tended to toss around terms like 'bombastic' when discussing Christopher Nolan's films, but he's the blockbuster filmmaker whose grand-scale work is never less than thoughtful. He tells stories with the confident hand of a master craftsman, exploring intimate themes of identity,… Read More

Doctor Strange review — Not magical, but the visuals (and Cumberbatch) conjure a win

November 6, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Derrickson | Written by Derrickson, John Spaihts, C. Robert Cargill, based on the Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko | 115 min For those not raised on Marvel Comics, Dr Stephen Strange is the fantasy universe's resident Master of Mystic Arts, its top wizard. His comics were the… Read More

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice review

March 25, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Zack Snyder | Written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer | 152 min. | ▲▲△△△ What a mess. That remark was one of my cinepanion's first upon leaving the cinema after this battle of comic book titans, and I can't deny her point of view. Zack Snyder's new, sprawling feature tries to do… Read More

The Blockbuster, The Hype, and The Internet Trainspotting

March 22, 2016 flawintheiris

As I write this, the review embargo for Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice has just been lifted. By Tuesday morning the advance reviews for the blockbuster will be out, just ahead of Wednesday's preview and Thursday night's screenings. I won't read them, but I will look at the headlines, to get a sense of the reactions.… Read More

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy review

July 11, 2015 flawintheiris

Watching Interstellar for a third time, I felt very much like I had a sense of what Christopher Nolan was going for. But it took three views to really feel like I got it. I love that, when movies have enough depth and complexity that it takes more than one viewing to fully grasp what's… Read More