Category Archives: Comedy

Mile End Kicks, Little Lorraine, and The Christophers reviews

April 15, 2026 flawintheiris

With the unusual coincidence that three festival features are arriving in cinemas on the same weekend, here are my (slightly or somewhat) updated AIFF and TIFF reviews. Mile End Kicks | Written and Directed by Chandler Levack | 112 min | ▲▲▲ Mile End Kicks is Toronto critic-turned-filmmaker Chandler Levack’s second feature, following the delightful…Read More

For Worse review — Divorce, California-style

April 5, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Amy Landecker | 90 min | ▲▲▲ | VOD Lauren (Landecker, a triple-threat here) is a 50-something realtor divorcing fairly amicably, raising a little girl and trying to get back to her first love, acting. In a class for commercials she meets Sean (Nico Hiraga, a Booksmart veteran), a 20-something guy…Read More

The Drama review — Secrets, lies, and cringe delights

April 4, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kristoffer Borgli | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲ | In Cinemas There's a tradition of Scandi cringe comedy that's like freebasing crack versus the straight-ahead cocaine of the brand elsewhere in the world. Consider the excruciating, dark humour of The Celebration, Force Majeure, Riders of Justice, or Another Round. Norwegian filmmaker Borgli…Read More

Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice review — Laughs found in time

April 2, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by BenDavid Grabinski | 107 min | ▲▲1/2 | Disney Plus Back in the late '90s one of the most popular movie genres week-in week-out was the post Pulp Fiction gangster comedy — usually punctuated with popular tunes, wordy thugs, pop culture references, and a non-linear storyline. This Winnipeg-shot picture feels like a…Read More

Project Hail Mary review — Super-cute space hokum

March 20, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Written by Drew Goddard, based on the novel by Andy Weir | 156 min | ▲▲▲ | In Cinemas The advance buzz for this one has been almost universally positive. That's what you'd expect when you combine the talents of Lord and Miller, famed for their animated…Read More

Father Mother Sister Brother review — Families untied

March 1, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch | 110 min | ▲▲▲ | on VOD This is more Night On Earth than, say, Paterson. We’re not getting the quirky intensity of Down By Law or the dark grandeur of Only Lovers Left Alive, probably my favourite of all Jarmusch's work. Father Mother Sister Brother may be a…Read More

Pillion review — Wheelies of love and adoration

March 1, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Harry Lighton | Written by Lighton, based on the book Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones | 106 min | ▲▲▲▲ Colin (Harry Melling) is a quiet, queer young man who lives with his parents, Douglas and Peggy (Douglas Hodge and Lesley Sharp) in suburban Bromley, South London, and sings with Douglas in a…Read More

How To Make A Killing review — Dial meh for murder

February 21, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Patton Ford | 105 min | ▲▲ This filmmaker wowed audiences his last time out with a cracking, pertinent thriller, Emily The Criminal. More's the shame he's bungled the follow-up, a picture that arrives with a promising satiric premise but never achieves anything close to that promise. If you've seen…Read More

Send Help review — a showcase for Rachel McAdams’ extraordinary gifts

February 14, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Raimi | Written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift | 113 min | ▲▲▲ There's a few things to say about this Sam Raimi comedy horror that may be relevant to your interests. It's a movie aiming to entertain — and occasionally shock — and succeeds at both of those efforts more…Read More

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie review — Toronto + time

February 12, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Johnson | Written by Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Jared Raab, Curt Lobb, Matthew Miller, Matt Greyson, Luca Tarantini, and Evan Morgan | 95 min | ▲▲1/2 I guess I'm a skeptic when it comes to the ouevre of Toronto comic actor and filmmaker, Matt Johnson. I wasn't much of a fan of Blackberry,…Read More