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The 355 review — Formula fun from Chastain and company

January 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Simon Kinberg | Script by Kinberg and Theresa Rebeck | 122 min | ▲▲▲△△ The 355, a movie that the filmmakers could've come up with a better title for, isn't the picture that's gonna change the fortunes of female-led espionage/action pictures. Don't get me wrong — I'm all for them, and there've been… Read More

Jungle Cruise review — Ersatz adventure gets lost down the river

July 27, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra | Written by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Josh Goldstein, Michael Green, and John Norville | 128 min | Disney Plus Almost 20 years ago, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's first starring role in a feature was a picture called The Scorpion King, an entertaining spin-off of The Mummy Returns, itself a sequel… Read More

Carlos (2010) review — Terrorist epic exerts a grip

July 7, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Olivier Assayas | Written by Assayas, Dan Franck, and Daniel Leconte | 165 min | Amazon Prime Available on Prime in a two-hour-45 minute version, I understand the original TV mini-series it’s based on is five-and-a-half-hours long, so what we're getting is an edited version of a longer narrative. Despite that, the film… Read More

Wasp Network review — Spy thriller absent sting

July 6, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Olivier Assayas | Written by Assayas and Fernando Morais, based on Morais' book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War | 127 min | Netflix A historical thriller — and yes, the 1990s is history now — based on a true story of Cuban pilots, defectors to the United States, who joined anti-Castro… Read More

Gold review — Fool on a hill

January 26, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed of Stephen Gaghan | Written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman | 121 min | Amazon Prime After last week's The Founder, and a long, dubious cinematic tradition of rags-to-riches tales where a fast-talking white dude exploits people and gets massively rich (before, sometimes, falling back in the gutter) you might wonder why we… Read More

The Girl On The Train review — Ridiculous melodrama has one track mind

October 8, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Tate Taylor | Written by Erin Cressida Wilson adapting the book by Paula Hawkins | 112 min The best thing one can say about The Girl On The Train is that it commits. A wildly over the top melodrama with characters that barely resemble human beings, it's a story about women who weep… Read More

Joy review — American Hustling

December 29, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by David O. Russell | Written by Russell and Annie Mumolo | 124 min | ▲▲▲▲△ Going back to his 1996 comedy Flirting With Disaster, I've admired Russell for his haphazard auteur style, a precarious balancing act between narrative messes and the inspiringly brilliant. Of late that ragged creativity has produced the excellent Silver Linings Playbook, but more… Read More