Tag Archives: Cillian Murphy

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 Quiet Place Part II — More of the good and the bad from the first movie

June 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Krasinksi | 97 min | VOD We're back in cinemas and back to the dystopic future where hyper-aggressive, murderous aliens with terrific ears — who clearly aren't hunting humans for food or sport, just for the sake of killing us — have destroyed society as we know it. Some folks… 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

The Party (2017) review — Send your regrets

March 1, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Sally Potter, with Walter Donohue, story editor | 71 minutes It's not often I actually regret sitting through a movie, given my passion for the medium, but the greatest mercy Sally Potter's The Party bestows on audiences is its brevity, which, in this case, barely approaches the soul of wit. Patricia Clarkson… 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

Free Fire review — Guns in a Warehouse. The End.

April 19, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Ben Wheatley | Written by Wheatley and Amy Jump | 90 min Free Fire may be set in the 1970s, but it feels entirely like one of the forgotten post-Tarantino gangster pictures of the late '90s, back when everyone loved Reservoir Dogs and every studio was willing to sink money into low-budget, wordy gangster… Read More

Reviews: Anthropoid, Solace, Tumbledown, A War, The Dressmaker

January 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Anthropoid Directed by Sean Ellis | Written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin | 120 min | On Netflix 1942, Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Two Czech expatriot soldiers Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) parachute into the countryside outside Prague. Their mission: To manage dialogue in painful Czech-accented English and be terribly good-looking in period costume, connect… 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