Category Archives: Indie

Alice, Darling review — Anna Kendrick impresses in indie drama

February 2, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Mary Nighy | Written by Alanna Francis | 90 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Digital/VOD After a career with her charm light turned up high, it's great seeing the way Anna Kendrick douses that star power for something more nuanced and internal. This modest Canadian/American indie allows her to stretch in a way the…Read More

Women Talking review — A potent, important conversation

January 20, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sarah Polley | Written by Polley, adapting the Miriam Toews novel | 104 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A version of this review was posted on FITI during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. With the splash Women Talking made at TIFF and AIFF, and the high profile of Sarah Polley on the…Read More

Top 10 Under-The-Radar Films of 2022

December 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Happy holidays, FITI readers! I hope whatever your tradition you're getting time off this year to watch some engaging movies. Traditionally, as I assemble my list of the best films of the past 12 months I find I have a number of perhaps lesser-known pictures that don’t quite fit among the ones I most want…Read More

Top 10 New-To-Me Movies of 2022

December 18, 2022 flawintheiris

A few days ago on the hellscape we all know as Twitter, someone posted a list of the older films they'd discovered this year. Movies from the past they'd never had a chance to see before but had sought out or stumbled upon in the past 12 months and were glad they did. Since I'm…Read More

See How They Run review — It was Agatha all along

November 27, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom George | Written by Mark Chappell | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Disney+ What we have here is an entirely self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, Agatha Christie-dragging whodunnit, stuffed with a delightful cast who completely understand what kind of movie they're in and swing for the fences. Accordingly, See How They Run is a delightful…Read More

The Novelist’s Film review — A quiet, graceful picture

November 10, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Hong Sang-soo | 92 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Carbon Arc Cinema There's a beautiful simplicity to The Novelist's Film, the first of Hong Sang-soo's I've had the pleasure of seeing. I'm surprised to learn it's his 27th. If his others are like this, I'll be excited to see more. He's…Read More

Causeway review — Jennifer Lawrence delivers in intimate drama

November 7, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Lila Neugebauer | Written by Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Elizabeth Sanders | 92 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Apple TV+ A version of this review appeared on FITI in September when it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. This lean, almost austere New Orleans-set drama from a first-time director sees the return of Jennifer Lawrence…Read More

The Banshees of Inisherin review — Irish idyll is a gem

November 5, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh | 109 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Disney + and Crave A version of this review appeared on FITI in September during the Toronto International Film Festival. This film was shot in Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The story is set on…Read More

Memoria review — A unique cinematic experience

November 4, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 136 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Carbon Arc Cinema A version of this review appeared during the 2021 edition of the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival It’s been more than a decade since I’ve seen a film by the revered Thai filmmaker with the challenging-to-pronounce name. It was his…Read More

Girl Picture review — Scandinavian coming-of-age movie enchants

October 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Original Title: Tytöt tytöt tytöt | Directed by Alli Haapasalo | Written by Ilona Ahti and Daniela Hakulinen | 100 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Carbon Arc Cinema What a fun time this film is, a coming-of-age tale told over three (perhaps non-consecutive) Friday nights, about three Finnish high school girls connecting with their identity, love,…Read More