Tag Archives: Alexander Skarsgaard

Lee review — Works as a war drama, less so a biopic

September 27, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ellen Kuras | Written by Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee, and Lem Dobbs, based on the book by Antony Penrose | 116 min | ▲▲▲△△ A capsule review of this film ran on FITI during the coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 There's an exceptional movie to be made about… Read More

Infinity Pool review — Gleeful bad-trip movie goes off the deep end

January 30, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Brandon Cronenberg | 117 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix I'm not the first critic to recognize the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree with the younger Cronenberg, son of David. Consider his first two features — Antiviral and the remarkable Possessor. The son's thematic concerns are similar to the… Read More

The Northman review — Rage, religion, and po-faced myth

April 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers and Sjón | 137 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Welcome to another bleak, violent historical tale from American auteur Robert Eggers, with plenty of his now well-established horror-tinged weirdness — lots of dolly-ins and characters staring into our souls — but all at a much bigger scale.… Read More

Passing review — Powerful performances in nuanced racial drama

November 15, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Rebecca Hall, with Hall adapting the novel by Nella Larsen | 98 min | Netflix The first feature by actor-turned director Rebecca Hall reportedly speaks to something in Hall's own experience, a family member who had hidden their ethnicity. The passing in this case is the story of a Black woman passing as… Read More

Godzilla vs Kong review — It’s a mighty creature feature

March 31, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam Wingard | Written by Eric Pearson, Max Borenstein, Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields | 113 min | Crave Plus A cinematic monster genetically spliced from two different franchises, featuring cinematic DNA from the good-time Kong Skull Island and the last two American Godzilla movies, the 2014 Gareth Edwards effort (not… Read More

War On Everyone (2017) review — Foul-mouthed gem of a crime comedy

August 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh | 98 min | Kanopy Director McDonagh out-blacks Shane Black with a shockingly funny buddy cop movie starring Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgaard. For all those of you who liked The Nice Guys, this is literally the next best thing. First off, it’s set in Albuquerque, New Mexico,… Read More

Long Shot review — Romance trumps laughs in political romcom

May 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Jonathan Levine | Written by Dan Sterling and Liz Hannah | 125 min | On Demand Recently, on a talkshow, Charlize Theron described Seth Rogen as some kind of stoned genius. I believe Einstein was her point of comparison. I don't know how clever the Canadian comedic actor, writer, and producer is, but… Read More

The Aftermath review — Handsome, conventional romantic drama

April 9, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by James Kent | Written by Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse, and Rhidian Brook, from a novel by Brook | 108 min | Disney+ Have you seen the trailer for this film? It's been floating around in front of indie pictures for months now, and it's the quintessential spoilery preview, sharing scenes from deep in… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: October 2018

October 2, 2018 flawintheiris

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society A fine, romantic period drama, stewed in the bones of 84 Charing Cross Road and any number of WWII-era tales of British privation. This most clumsily-titled film earned a cinematic release in the UK, but not here. It's too bad because it's a good-looking picture, with lovely seaside… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Spring 2018

May 10, 2018 flawintheiris

Mute (2018) A sci-fi thriller half a mess and half an interesting exercise in style. That it comes from Duncan Jones, the filmmaker responsible for Moon, Source Code, and, yes, Warcraft, hopes were high this would be a strong genre entry, but Mute never hits above its pulpy elements. We're in future Berlin, which looks… Read More