Tag Archives: David MacKenzie

Fuze review — Explosive, London-based thriller with a fatal flaw

April 23, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by David Mackenzie | Written by Ben Hopkins | 98 min | ▲▲▲ for genre fans, ▲▲ for everyone else An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Scots filmmaker David MacKenzie has carved out one of the most impressive thriller and action… Read More

Relay review — A cracking New York thriller

August 23, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by David MacKenzie | Written by Justin Piasecki | 112 min | ▲▲▲▲ A version of this review appeared during the coverage of #TIFF24 in September of last year. This picture is an achingly chilly, exceptionally well-crafted anti-tech tech thriller, one that may not quite be in Michael Clayton or The Parallax View's league,… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: December 2018

December 19, 2018 flawintheiris

Roma One could make an argument last year's Mudbound was the feature that signalled Netlfix's prestige drama interest, readying their horses for the annual Oscar race. Roma is really the tipping point, a film with the critical momentum to suggest it could actually take the Best Picture statuette. I'd be surprised, simply because it's much… Read More

Hell Or High Water review — Dusty Days in the Lone Star State

September 5, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by David MacKenzie | Written by Taylor Sheridan | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲△ In Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), a 25-year-old Jeff Bridges joined Clint Eastwood as a pair of bank robbers in rural Montana. Forty-two years later Bridges is on the other side of the law, but Hell Or High Water feels a little like a spiritual… Read More