Tag Archives: Edward Norton

A Complete Unknown review — It’s all new to me, like some mystery

December 25, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by James Mangold | Written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, from the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald | 142 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave I slouched into the screening room for A Complete Unknown with more than a few reservations about what I was about to see. I've gone on the record… Read More

Asteroid City review — Wes Anderson’s boxes in boxes

June 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson and Roman Coppola | 105 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave If you go back to my review of Anderson Feature #10, The French Dispatch, you'll see it left me a little confused. I appreciated its very Andersonian qualities — art directed within an inch of its life,… Read More

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review — Delightful return of Daniel Craig’s brilliant sleuth

November 23, 2022 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Rian Johnson | 139 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | On Netflix from December 23 A version of this review was first on FITI in September from the Toronto International Film Festival. One of 2019’s unalloyed treasures, Knives Out brought ensemble mysteries in an Agatha Christie vein very much back into the mainstream with… Read More

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Empire Of Light reviews #TIFF22

September 14, 2022 flawintheiris

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Written and Directed by Rian Johnson | 139 min One of 2019's unalloyed treasures, Knives Out brought ensemble mysteries in an Agatha Christie vein very much back into the mainstream, with a delightful dollop of eating the rich. No shade on Kenneth Branagh's efforts to do the same… Read More

The French Dispatch review — I don’t really get it. Still worth seeing, though.

November 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugh Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman | 108 min | In Cinemas I've long appreciated Wes Anderson's strange magic. I have plenty of time for his tiny twee classics like Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the writer-director's masterpiece, The Grand Budapest Hotel.… Read More

The Bourne Legacy (2012) review — Action franchise’s clever extension

August 5, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Tony Gilroy | Written by Tony and Dan Gilroy, from a story by Tony, inspired by the Robert Ludlum novels | 135 min | Amazon Prime and Netflix | Originally reviewed August 15, 2012 A tough act this one is following. The first three Bourne movies are that rare popular franchise without a… Read More

Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton’s genre epic mostly works

November 8, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Edward Norton } Written by Norton, adapting the novel by Jonathan Lethem | 144 min | Crave Plus How did Norton, who hasn't directed since Keeping The Faith in 2000, manage to get this feature made, one where he produces, writes, directs, and acts? I'm impressed, but just the same I'm often a… Read More

Alita: Battle Angel review — High production value can’t save wet script

February 17, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Rodriguez | Written by Rodriguez, James Cameron, and Laeta Kalogridis, based on the graphic novel by Yukito Kishiro | 122 min | Crave Plus I know it's only the middle of February, but I'm trying to remember if there's been one solid feature film from Hollywood in the past six weeks. One… Read More

Isle Of Dogs review — Barking mad, beautiful, and yes, problematic

April 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson from a story by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Kunichi Nomura | 101 min The new Wes Anderson is as brilliant and idiosyncratic as anything I've seen in his peculiar cinematic output. It also has moments where I was left befuddled, bemused, and maybe, once or… Read More

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One review

March 31, 2015 flawintheiris

This summer Phase Two of Marvel's cinematic universe will conclude with Avengers: Age of Ultron and Antman. It's the second part of an increasingly sprawling series of connected films. The first began back in May 2008 with Iron Man, bringing to the world a host of Marvel superheroes as a kid I never would have dreamed I'd get to… Read More