Tag Archives: Dev Patel

Monkey Man review — Dev Patel delivers a sweaty, genre-bending thriller

April 7, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Dev Patel | Written by Patel, Paul Angunawela, and John Collee | 121 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas Who knew that Dev Patel had these chops as a filmmaker? I'm usually pretty skeptical when a star steps behind the camera and then puts themselves in the lead role of their first feature,… Read More

To Kill A Tiger review — A fierce fight for justice

January 30, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nisha Pahuja | 125 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | National Film Board of Canada To Kill A Tiger is a surprise Academy Award-nominee for Best Documentary from Toronto-based filmmaker Nisha Pahuja, with Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel on board as Executive Producers. The film takes us to a village in Jharkhand, India,… Read More

The Green Knight review — Beautiful to see, but stolid

July 31, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed and Written by David Lowery | 130 min | Amazon Prime Count on the American indie studio A24 to deliver a counter-programming punch to the summer movie slate, a psychedelic adaptation of the ancient poem Sir Gawain and The Green Knight from the filmmaker responsible for the unaccountably overrated A Ghost Story. Lowery also gave… Read More

The Personal History of David Copperfield review — A joyful adaptation of a classic novel

September 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Armando Iannucci | Written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, adapting the book by Charles Dickens | 119 min | Crave Plus Words I've used to describe Iannucci's work on films like In The Loop, and The Death of Stalin include "biting" and "hilarious," and I'd carry forward that kind of language for his… Read More

Lion review — Roaring drama of homecoming, portrayed

December 24, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Garth Davis | Written by Luke Davies, adapting the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley | 118 min It's 1986, and Saroo (Sunny Pawar) is a five-year-old Indian boy living in a rural village with his older brother, Guddu (Abhishek Bharate), mother Kamla (Priyanka Bose), and baby sister. Kamla barely ekes… Read More

The Man Who Knew Infinity review — By the numbers biopic

June 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Matt Brown | Adapting a biography by Robert Kaniglel | 108 min | ▲▲△△△ Indian national S. Ramanujan (Dev Patel) was a mathematician in early 20th Century Madras invited by the stuffy Cambridge University to work on his formulas with their own math wizard GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), despite resistance from certain… Read More

Chappie review — scrappy (but not too crappy) scifi

March 12, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell This picture is getting a lot of flack for its various issues, not the least of which is its considerable similarity—at least in the early going—to Robocop, and its considerable similarity—later on in the running —to Short Circuit. But despite that, within its rough-around-the-edges construction,… Read More

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review — More of the same, and less

March 8, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden, written by Madden and Ol Parker If you're a big fan of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, I would be lying if I told you the sequel doesn't deliver more of what made the first one a hit: A wonderful group of talented, mostly British actors working through a predictable script about… Read More

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review

June 3, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden Written by Ol Parker from a Deborah Moggach novel These Foolish Things With a cast like this, in this environment, it's hard to not like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I've read some reviews that criticize the picture for riding too much on the charm of that cast, with too little… Read More