Category Archives: Indie

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 Baltimorons review — Unlikely seasonal romance and dentistry

December 3, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Jay Duplass | Written by Duplass and Michael Strassner | 101min | ▲▲ | On VOD The American independent cinematic cottage industry of the Duplass Brothers has largely missed me. I've seen both of them, Jay and Mark, in on-screen roles, mostly in association with the late, great Lynn Shelton, but don't know…Read More

Meadowlarks review — Honest and heartfelt overtakes the prosaic

November 30, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Tasha Hubbard | Written by Hubbard and Emil Sher | 91min | ▲▲1/2 Here's a well-meaning story based on actual events about a family of indigenous siblings who after 50 years reunite — or, practically, meet for the first time — over a long weekend in Banff. They were separated by the Sixties…Read More

Sentimental Value review — Superb from start to finish

November 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed bu Joachim Trier | Written by Trier and Eskil Vogt | 133 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Amazon Prime An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during coverage of the Atlantic International Film Festival A second time watching Sentimental Value, away from the subcutaneous hum of the festival season, confirms what I suspected…Read More

Train Dreams review — A gorgeous heartbreaker of a movie

November 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Bentley | Written by Bentley and Greg Kwedar, based on a novella by Denis Johnson | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲ | Netflix Here's a stunner, another in Netflix's solid selection of films coming out this fall — we didn't get it in cinemas here, but now it's available on the streamer. It's…Read More

Die My Love review — Jennifer Lawrence suffers, as do we

November 12, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Lynne Ramsey | Written by Ramsey, Enda Walsh, and Alice Birch, based the novel by Ariana Harwicz | 119 min | ▲▲ Lynne Ramsey is a shockingly idiosyncratic filmmaker, whose relatively scanty cinematic output means anytime she does release a film it's an event. The Scottish filmmaker's previous film, You Were Never Really…Read More

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

October 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Richard Linklater | Written by Robert Kaplow | ▲▲▲▲ | Crave 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…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

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 | ▲▲▲▲ 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 based in fact.…Read More

All Of You review — Scifi, romance, melodrama, tears

October 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by William Bridges | Written by Bridges and Brett Goldstein | 98 min | ▲▲▲ | Apple TV+ This might be the first film I've seen Goldstein in following the undeniable, inexorable Roy Kent from Ted Lasso, such an unforgettable character. I mean, he was here, he was there, he was every- fucking-where, right? Goldstein…Read More