Tag Archives: Elizabeth Olsen

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review — A big old four-colour mess

May 6, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Raimi | Written by Michael Waldron | 126 min | ▲▲△△△ It's time to recognize that there's something off in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ever since the unparalleled double-whammy of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the features from the House of Ideas have been at best uneven, at worst terrible. Black Widow… Read More

Avengers: Infinity War review — Massive scale and massive stakes

April 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo | Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely | 149 min Since the mid-'80s, Marvel Comics have been finding their sales figures spiking with summer crossover series — pitting their popular heroes against each other and/or a terrible, frequently cosmic, threat—with titles like Secret Wars, Civil War, Secret… Read More

Wind River review — Powerful, if somewhat problematic thriller

August 27, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Taylor Sheridan | 107 min Sheridan has elevated his career from jobbing Hollywood actor to A-list auteur with Wind River. This is his first film as writer-director, and while it's not quite to the standard of his last two screenplays directed by others—Sicario and Hell Or High Water—it's a dark and compelling… Read More

Ingrid Goes West review — Social media satire delivers laughs, cold sweats

August 26, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Spicer | Written by Spicer and David Branson Smith | 97 min With this and The Little Hours, Aubrey Plaza has ascended to queen of the summer's American indies—producing and starring in both of these weird, wonderful pictures. We meet her Ingrid crashing the wedding of a supposed former BFF before pepper-spraying… Read More

Captain America: Civil War review — More superheroes than you can shake a webhead at

May 6, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo | Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely | 146 min | ▲▲▲▲△ It's hard to believe, but since Iron Man in 2008, we've had a dozen Marvel movies. Captain America: Civil War is the lucky 13th. It's not my favourite of the bunch, but it ranks high for a… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Six — Biopic Tuesday

September 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Life Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Luke Davies | 111 min. Though I heard a scoff or two from a fellow #AFF2015-goer when I admitted I was attending the R-Patz drama, it wasn't the former Twilight actor that drew me to the film, it was the director: Corbijn got his start as a… Read More

Avengers: Age of Ultron review — The biggest, but not necessarily the best

May 1, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joss Whedon, from the Marvel Comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby After 10 movies set in this particular Marvel Cinematic Universe, we know these costumed folks now. They're fun to spend time with, what with the jokes and fighting and punching. But the filmmakers also have the added pressure of… Read More

Martha Marcy May Marlene review

November 20, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Sean DurkinMarcy May (Elizabeth Olsen) is one of many young people working at a farm in what looks like upstate New York. We notice it's a bit weird from the get-go: the women prepare the meals and sit outside the dining room while the men eat first. Then the women get… Read More