Tag Archives: Ann Dowd

Mass review — Hard material well performed but flatly directed

October 19, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Fran Kranz | 110 min | In Cinemas Two couples sit at a round table in a church, a meeting arranged by another party. They're all carrying a weight, you can tell. It takes awhile to figure out what they're there for, and when we do, which couple's son was the… Read More

Cowboys review — Family drama well-intentioned and well-acted

June 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Anna Kerrigan | 86 min | Hoopla Cowboys is a well-meaning if somewhat clumsy indie drama about an American family, the Johnsons, where the father, Troy (Steve Zahn) who appears to suffer from a bipolar disorder, abducts his trans son, Joe (Sasha Knight), from the care of Joe's conservative mother, Sally… Read More

Rebecca (1940/2020) review — Traditional melodrama worth seeing in two versions

November 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Rebecca | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | Written by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, and Philip MacDonald, from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier | 130 min The Hitchcock original remained unseen by me until recently — all I knew was it was his first Hollywood picture, and it won Best Picture over films like… Read More

Our Brand Is Crisis review — Confused Message Sinks Comedy

November 3, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by David Gordon Green | Written by Peter Straughan from a documentary by Rachel Boynton | 107 min. Neither fish nor fowl, as they say, this is a political dramedy that features both Sandra Bullock vomiting into a wastepaper basket and discussions of how politics can eat away the soul. This struggle to sustain… Read More