Eden review — Paradise found and lost

October 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron Howard | Written by Howard and Noah Pink | 129 min | ▲▲▲ | On Prime An earlier version of this review appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024. It's taken awhile for Ron Howard's survivalist melodrama (written by Haligonian Noah Pink, who also did Tetris) to arrive after it premiered…Read More

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review — Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

October 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Scott Cooper | Written by Cooper, based on the book by Warren Zanes | ▲▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas Bruce Springsteen's signature song is probably still "Born To Run," which cemented his status as a heartland rocker. But in a BBC Documentary called Glory Days, released in 1987, he admits that the albums following…Read More

Frankenstein review — Monstrously beautiful, but it shambles

October 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapting the novel by Mary Shelley | 149 min | ▲▲▲ | In Cinemas and on Netflix An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Guillermo del Toro has said this is the film he's always wanted to make, an…Read More

Blue Moon review — An ode to art, loneliness, and beauty

October 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Richard Linklater | Written by Robert Kaplow | ▲▲▲▲ An earlier version of this review ran during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. We open on Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke, the production working hard to diminish his height and looks) dying alone in the rain in a New York alley in 1943.…Read More

Good Fortune review — Keanu’s terrific in Aziz Ansari’s social issue comedy

October 20, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Aziz Ansari | 97 min | ▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas There's a genuine novelty of a full-on comedy opening in cinemas in 2025, which is kind of a shame. There are so few of these. It's also kind of a treat that Good Fortune's fantasy scenario feels like it might be…Read More

After the Hunt review — Crimes and misdemeanors

October 19, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Luca Guadagnino | Written by Nora Garrett | 138 min | ▲▲▲ It's rare to see a big Hollywood feature tackle a culture war subject — whether it's Diversity, Equality and Inclusion or #MeToo — but After the Hunt touches on both. It's a bit messy, and bit of a melodrama, which is…Read More

Kiss Of The Spider Woman (2025) review — J-Lo shines, not much else

October 17, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Bill Condon | Written by Condon, from the book of the stage musical by Terrence McNally, and the novel by Manuel Puig | 129 min | ▲1/2 Jennifer Lopez has claimed she's always wanted to be in a musical, and here it is. For those who recall the Hector Babenco drama 40 years…Read More

What do The Dead Zone, Wayward, and Run The Wild Fields (and Schitt’s Creek!) have in common?

October 14, 2025 flawintheiris

OK, so stay with me, because this is an odd one. I'm talking about David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983), starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Tom Skerritt, the new Netflix miniseries, Wayward, starring Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, and Toni Collette, and a made-for-cable film called Run The Wild Fields (2000), that stars Sean Patrick Flannery and…Read More

A House of Dynamite review — Kathryn Bigelow’s terrifically tense nuclear thriller

October 14, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow | Written by Noah Oppenheim | 112 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | On Netflix It's been a long while since we've experienced a truly terrifying nuclear thriller. Maybe because the threat of nuclear war feels weirdly abstract in the face of climate change, rising authoritarianism, and a much more conventional war in…Read More

Roofman review — Channing Tatum’s gentleman thief is a charmer

October 12, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Derek Cianfrance | Written by Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn | 126 min | ▲▲▲▲ | In Cinemas Right off the bat, what makes Roofman so terrific is it's another tale about America today — even as it's set a few years in the past, there's something undeniably current about this story, which is…Read More