Tag Archives: Amy Ryan

Wolfs review — These guys are pros

September 28, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Jon Watts | 108 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Apple TV+ Amy Ryan's Margaret, a District Attorney, has a big problem. There's a dead guy in her swanky New York hotel room. She has a number she was given for absolute emergencies, someone she should call only if she's in desperate need.… Read More

Beau Is Afraid review — An epic, shame-filled odyssey

May 7, 2023 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ari Aster | 179 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave This is the most polarizing film of the season — it arrived with a deluge of negative reaction on social media from the Asterphiles hoping for another Hereditary or Midsommar, followed by more muted, but largely positive, critical response. I come down… Read More

The Infiltrator review — Powder, Guns, and Money

August 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Brad Furman | Written by Ellen Brown Furman based on the book by Robert Mazur | 127 min | ▲▲△△△ It's hard to believe the true story of a 1980s deep undercover agent for the US government who managed to disable Pablo Escobar's drug empire through money laundering and making friends with the right… Read More

Bridge of Spies review — Antiquated Crossings

October 16, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Spielberg | Written by Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen | 141 min Don't believe the marketing. Yes, Bridge Of Spies is set in the late 1950s and early '60s, based on a true story, and yes, it's set in the intelligence community of the United States, the Soviet Union, and… Read More

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) review — Once more into the cowl, Michael Keaton

November 9, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, written by Innaritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo After I saw the movie I considered the career of Michael Keaton. I always respected the guy as both a talented comedic and dramatic actor—in movies like Night Shift, Beetlejuice and Clean and Sober. He has a compelling, combustive quality. There's nothing warm… Read More