Tag Archives: Jennifer Ehle

She Said review — Journalism drama chronicles the fall of Weinstein

November 20, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Maria Schrader | Written by Maria Schrader, based on the New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey | 128 min | ▲▲▲▲△ It's hard to underestimate the impact of this story that ran in The New York Times — along with a parallel piece that ran in the New Yorker… Read More

Saint Maud review — An intense exploration of religious fervour

February 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Rose Glass | 84 min | On Demand Rose Glass' first feature is a stunner. It's a psychological thriller flecked with bloody, body horror notes — a story told through the experience of a deeply unreliable narrator. Maud (Morfydd Clark), as we learn, isn't even her real name. She's a home… Read More

Run This Town review — Millennial angst buries the lede

April 21, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ricky Tollman | 99 min | Crave Bram (Ben Platt) is a slightly ambitious, slightly insecure, slightly smug young reporter who in 2012 works for a slightly fictional Toronto paper called The Record. He wants to do journalism that matters — and is regularly pressured in that direction by his… Read More

A Quiet Passion review — Pain, pity, and poetry

May 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Terrence Davies | 125 min A solemn, mannered Emily Dickinson biopic, directed by the very literate British filmmaker Davies. On the surface an odd casting choice for the poet, Cynthia Nixon, makes the role entirely her own. We meet Emily when she's still a teen (Emma Bell) frustrated at a seminary,… Read More

Reviews: Creative Control, Misconduct, The Benefactor, Queen of Earth, MI-5

May 16, 2016 flawintheiris

Creative Control Directed by Benjamin Dickinson | Written by Dickinson and Micah Bloomberg | 97 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ | On DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD May 17 My first impression of Creative Control was that star/director/writer Dickinson is a narcotized Noah Baumbach. Not a terribly generous thought, but that's what I was thinking. As I went deeper into his… Read More

50 Shades of Grey review — Gives soft porn a bad name

February 19, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, written by Kelly Marcel from the novel by EL James | 125 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, Crave I knew this picture was in trouble when early on the heroine of the piece, college student Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), dressed in her unpretentious print blouse, arrives at a phallic glass and… Read More

Black or White review — a fundamentally flawed drama

January 31, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Mike Binder It's a rare thing when a feature film makes a game attempt to tackle the slippery issues of contemporary racial politics in the United States. More should. For the effort alone, Binder should be applauded. But his based-on-real-events script tries to do too much, and as a result is… Read More

RoboCop (2014) review

February 17, 2014 flawintheiris

Directed by José PadilhaWritten by Joshua Zetumer, based on the 1987 Robocop script by Edward Neumeier and Michael MinerThe second of three remakes planned for the unholy trinity of Paul Verhoeven future dystopia films (last year's underwhelming Total Recall, the forthcoming Starship Troopers), all of which didn't need new versions, but when did that ever… Read More

Zero Dark Thirty review

January 12, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Written by Mark Boal In the opening scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, following the text that the film is "based on first-hand accounts of actual events," Jason Clarke's CIA agent, the single-named Dan, is interrogating a prisoner at some Black Site, an American ops location without an address, somewhere in Pakistan. They're… Read More

Contagion review

October 2, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Written by Scott Z. Burns | 106 min | Netflix I've read that Soderbergh's intent with this virus thriller was to make a film akin to producer/director Irwin Allen's disaster movies of the 1970s, which included The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and The Swarm. The template of those pictures… Read More