Tag Archives: Ethan Hawke

Blue Moon review — An ode to art, loneliness, and beauty

October 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Richard Linklater | Written by Robert Kaplow | ▲▲▲▲ An earlier version of this review ran during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. We open on Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke, the production working hard to diminish his height and looks) dying alone in the rain in a New York alley in 1943.… Read More

Wildcat review — “The truth shall make you odd”

May 27, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ethan Hawke | Written by Hawke and Shelby Gaines | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ An earlier, capsule version of this review appeared during FITI coverage of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The headline is lifted from American southern gothic author Flannery O'Connor, as is this gem: “The truth doesn’t change according to… Read More

Leave The World Behind review — Apocalypse now and more later on

December 6, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Esmail | Written by Esmail, based on the novel by Rumaan Alam | 148 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix This is one of those Netflix features that got a week in cinemas in advance of its debut on the streaming giant, but with no hype you'd be forgiven for missing it. That's… 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 Northman review — Rage, religion, and po-faced myth

April 29, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers and Sjón | 137 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Welcome to another bleak, violent historical tale from American auteur Robert Eggers, with plenty of his now well-established horror-tinged weirdness — lots of dolly-ins and characters staring into our souls — but all at a much bigger scale.… Read More

The Guilty (2021) review — A passable, if inessential, remake

September 28, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Antoine Fuqua | Written by Nic Pizzolatto, based on the original screenplay by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen | 90 min | Netflix I've read that Jake Gyllenhaal was a big fan of the Danish original, and so given the chance to remake it brought Training Day filmmaker Antoine Fuqua on board.… Read More

The Truth review — Charming French dramedy from renowned filmmaker

July 9, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda | Written by Hirokazu Koreeda and Ken Liu | 106 min | On Demand A frequently amusing, frequently melancholy family drama with a few undeniable meta overlaps to real life that help keep things interesting from the director of Shoplifters, a film I was in the minority for not loving. Catherine Deneuve… Read More

Stockholm review — Cancel this Swedish vacation

April 22, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Robert Budreau | 92 min | Crave Plus Stockholm is a stultifying experience at the movies due to the picture's sheer lack of identity. Writer-director Budreau gave us a mediocre Chet Baker biopic, Born To Be Blue, and here he's back with another bland, lifeless picture. Stockholm introduction includes the tag line:… Read More

10 Pieces of Music Inseparable From a Movie

March 4, 2019 flawintheiris

This post is borne out of a conversation that came up between friends some time ago, about the how some pre-existing songs have been used so successfully in film to make them forever joined with said film in my mind and heart. In some cases it's because the picture introduced me to the song, or… Read More

Juliet, Naked review — Byrne and Hawke bring it

September 4, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jesse Peretz | Written by Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor, and Tamara Jenkins, from a Nick Hornby novel | 105 min | On Demand My mother read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and recommended the book to me, telling me that the lead character was just like me. Really, Mom? You think I would cheat on my… Read More