Kristen Stewart film reviews: Seberg, Lizzie, JT LeRoy, Underwater

June 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Kristen Stewart is working nonstop these days — she's been in five features in the past three years, the highest profile being Charlie's Angels, with Happiest Season still expected later in 2020. The actor achieved fame through the sparkly vampire-ridden Twilight series, but in recent years has pursued far more interesting and varied feature work.… Read More

Personal Shopper review — Genre mash-up gives Kristen Stewart her best role

April 6, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Oliver Assayas | 105 min My favourite film at last year's AFF, after which I wrote up its delicious contradictions. Watching it a second time I felt like it deserved a little more text. I think it's going to confound a few people, anyone going in expecting either some kind of… Read More

Charlie’s Angels (2019) review — See it for the Stewarts

November 18, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Elizabeth Banks | Written by Banks, Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn | 118 min A reboot no one asked for to a movie that wasn't so well received that last time out, the risible Charlie's Angel: Full Throttle from 2003. The prospect of a return to this material is sweetened by Elizabeth Banks,… Read More

The Wrong Girls review — The next-gen stoner comedy

August 14, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Dylan Meyer | 100 min | ▲▲▲ Welcome to August, when studios release the movies they couldn't quite figure out how to market to audiences who have spent the summer being pummelled into submission by blockbusters. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Consider the oddball pleasures of Sex and Death at… Read More

Love Lies Bleeding review — Juicy noir embraces and resists genre

March 15, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Rose Glass | Written by Glass and Weronika Tofilska | 104 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime What a terrifically pulpy headscratcher this is. This is the second feature from Saint Maud filmmaker Glass, which couldn't be more different from her debut. It's a sleazy American noir that embraces the late 1980s setting… Read More

Crimes of the Future review — Long Live the New Sex

June 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by David Cronenberg | 107 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | VOD Can we say now, while he's still with us and making movies at this standard, that David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker our national cinema has ever produced? I mean, the mountain of evidence is towering. If you go back more than… Read More

Spencer review — Diana’s darkest days

November 8, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Pablo Larraín | Written by Steven Knight | 117 min | Crave Larraín is the Chilean auteur with a gift for compelling biographies of charismatic figures — Jackie and Neruda being two — as well as the kind of versatility to make movies like last year's electrifying Ema. Here he teams up with… Read More

Happiest Season review — A gay and merry holiday treat

December 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Clea DuVall | Written by DuVall and Mary Holland | 102 min | CBC Gem, Crave It's Christmas at the Caldwell home, solidly upper-middle class, white, and midwestern. Daughter Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is bringing her partner Abby (Kristen Stewart) to the holiday celebration. The problem is that Harper hasn't come out to her… Read More

Café Society review — Woody in a Wistful Mood

July 28, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Woody Allen | 96 min | Amazon Prime |▲▲▲△△ "Until, one day out hunting, she mistook him for a deer." That line's got great bite, maybe the best in the whole picture, a fleeting moment of Woody Allen's wit at its sharpest—though, granted, some context will help with getting the laugh if… Read More

American Ultra review — A spy-action-stoner mash-up

August 22, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Nima Nourizadeh, written by Max Landis Sometimes when you bring together two disparate influences in an odd little brew you get something fresh. For the most part, that's what's happened here. It's clumsy in places, but it entertains as the world's first stoner comedy/action thriller. American Ultra is being marketed on its action comedy… Read More