Category Archives: The Worst

Mercy (2026) review — A simply awful time at the movies

January 22, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov | Written by Marco van Belle | ▲ It's not often a movie makes me angry. I love cinema, so even the worst, most poorly made piece of crap usually offers something for me to enjoy. Mercy, which wants to be a gritty, adrenalized crime thriller cum science fiction picture, offers…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

Bone Lake review — Sexy horror? Bland and blander.

October 3, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan | Written by Joshua Friedlander | 94 min | ▲1/2 | VOD I don't like criticizing actors in my reviews. Any time an actor seems uncomfortable in a role, if there's fault to be found it's always in the production — with the script, the direction, or the producers for…Read More

The Old Guard 2 review — Deeply mortal, deeply flawed

July 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Victoria Mahoney | Written by Greg Rucka and Sarah L. Walker, based on the graphic novel by Rucka and Leandro Fernandez | 107 min | ▲ | Netflix Are you finding that years later you're still counting the cost of the pandemic? For me, I measure the lasting impact to the way I…Read More

Seven Veils review — Atom Egoyan’s disastrous soap opera

March 12, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Atom Egoyan | 107 min | ▲1/2 This film is a testament to Amanda Seyfried's astonishing talent. She's at its centre, delivering a passionate, emotionally grounded performance. It's also the one thing keeping this ill-advised effort on the rails. I don't blame Seyfried's cast mates for this — it's as if…Read More

Star Trek: Section 31 review — Send it to the Delta Quadrant

January 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi | Written by Craig Sweeny, Bo Yeon Kim, and Erika Lippoldt | 95 min | ▲1/2 | Paramount+ I'm a longtime Trekkie, having grown up with the original series and been a regular watcher of The Next Generation and subsequent series through Enterprise. Though I've enjoyed many of the crew's cinematic…Read More

Here (2024) review — Make America Fake Again

November 1, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Zemeckis | Written by Zemeckis and Eric Roth, based on a graphic novel by Richard McGuire | 104 min | ▲△△△△ | Amazon Prime I guess I shouldn't be surprised Here is a powerfully retrograde, deeply hokey bit of entertainment — it was made by the director and screenwriter of Forrest Gump,…Read More

I.S.S. review — Close-orbit thriller explodes on the pad

June 28, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Written by Nick Shafir | 95 min | ▲△△△△ | Amazon Prime It used to be that if Chris Messina was in a movie it was a pretty safe bet it was a script that has been passed up by six other more interesting actors. Then, last year he showed…Read More

Someone Like You review — Bible-thumping romantic sludge

April 8, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Tyler Russell | Written by Russell and Karen Kingsbury | 126 min | ▲△△△△ Thanks to an article in the New York Times, I've learned Karen Kingsbury is the new Queen of Christian Fiction (American-styled), taking her rapidly written bestsellers and turning them into TV series and feature films. This one's directed by…Read More

William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill review — Vanity Trek

March 20, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe | 96 min | ▲△△△△ WIlliam Shatner is a famous Canadian actor who has lived an impressively long life — he's just about to turn 93 — and has managed to sustain a career in show business much longer than his initial fame as Captain Kirk in Star Trek might've…Read More