Top 10 movies of 2025

December 28, 2025 flawintheiris

The time has arrived, I can put it off no longer. I figured if I could see Marty Supreme, I'd feel confident enough to assemble this list of the best movies of 2025. This even though there are a few well-regarded movies from this year that I've not been able to catch up to yet…Read More

10 Worst Movies of 2025

December 26, 2025 flawintheiris

I don't do a list like this very often because I know how difficult it is to make any kind of movie, good or otherwise. But maybe more than in an average year, I sat through a lot of terrible ones — this as I also recognize there were a lot of great movies in…Read More

Summer and Fall 2025 Season at Carbon Arc Cinema

December 25, 2025 flawintheiris

What a year it's been at Carbon Arc Cinema. This independent, Halifax art house, bringing to the big screen the best in international, independent, Canadian, and documentary film, has seen a huge increase in the number of people through its doors since 2024. That's largely due to the hard work of staffers Kenny Lewis and…Read More

Marty Supreme review — Timothée Chalamet’s table tennis epic

December 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Josh Safdie | Written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein | 150 min | ▲▲▲▲ | In Cinemas 2025 has been the year of the battling sports dramas from the Safdie brothers, who used to make movies together, like Good Time and Uncut Gems. Bennie Safdie made The Smashing Machine, which I enjoyed mostly…Read More

Top 10 Under-The-Radar Movies of 2025

December 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Hello faithful readers! One of the things I do around this time of year as I'm busy assembling my official Top 10 movies list — it should be ready in a few days — is offer up 10 others I really love that IMHO deserve more attention. My work as senior programmer at Carbon Arc…Read More

Ella McCay review — A must see for James L. Brooks fans, and isn’t that everyone?

December 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James L. Brooks | 115 min | ▲▲▲1/2 So, for those who don't know, James L. Brooks is a Hollywood legend. He's worked in TV and film going back to the mid-1960s, and directed Oscar-winning fare like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good As It Gets, while executive producing The…Read More

Avatar: Fire and Ash review — Jim Cameron’s indigenous fantasy redux

December 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by James Cameron | Written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno | 197 min | ▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas James Cameron is the most successful Canadian filmmaker in history by the simple measure of box office returns. It's hard to deny he knows what audiences want, going back to…Read More

Cloud, My Fathers’ Daughter, Magic Farm, Vulcanizadora reviews

December 18, 2025 flawintheiris

Here are a few art house films that came out in 2025, some of which are now available to rent and stream. Cloud original title Kuraudo ▲▲▲ (VOD, Criterion Channel) Kiyoshi Kurosawa's feature feels like two separate movies. The first part is a slowburn drama about a electronic reseller, a man who purchases products on…Read More

The Knox Office: Christmas movies about giving

December 15, 2025 flawintheiris

For CBC Information Morning's Make The Season Kind show on Friday I was given the mission to highlight movies that are about kindness and generosity. So I chose one seasonal movie that I love but doesn't have a particularly strong reputation, I chose one that might not even qualify for most people as a seasonal…Read More

The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) review — A compelling, unpredictable thriller from Brazil

December 15, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 161 min | ▲▲▲▲ The Secret Agent is a deconstructed political thriller from Brazil, but almost as if the filmmaker was inspired by Robert Altman, certainly the broad palate of American films of the 1970s. His rambling, rangy story is set in 1977, and for much of…Read More