Tag Archives: Jennifer Lawrence

Causeway review — Jennifer Lawrence delivers in intimate drama

November 7, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Lila Neugebauer | Written by Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Elizabeth Sanders | 92 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Apple TV+ A version of this review appeared on FITI in September when it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. This lean, almost austere New Orleans-set drama from a first-time director sees the return of Jennifer Lawrence… Read More

Causeway, The Eternal Daughter, and Decision To Leave reviews #TIFF22

September 17, 2022 flawintheiris

Causeway | Directed by Lila Neugebauer | Written by Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Elizabeth Sanders | 92 min This lean, even austere New Orleans-set drama is from a first-timer, and sees the return of Jennifer Lawrence — who's taken a little time away from her acting career recently — giving a surprisingly embodied performance, all angular… Read More

Don’t Look Up review — Killer comet satire crushes

December 29, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Adam McKay | Written by McKay and David Sirota | 138 min | Netflix The biggest movie on Netflix this season has also turned out to be the most controversial. The screeds against it are plenty — a passel of well-regarded reviewers have called the disaster movie, cleverly, "disastrous," and its director a… Read More

Dark Phoenix review — X-Men franchise finale fails to burn

June 10, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, based on comics by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Dave Cockrum | 113 min | Crave Plus "They went back to the well one time too often." That's what a lot of the wags were saying about the last movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, the unloved follow-up to the otherwise excellent X-Men:… Read More

Red Sparrow review — Jennifer Lawrence is much better than the film she’s in

March 2, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Francis Lawrence | Written by Justin Haythe, adapting the novel by Jason Matthews | 139 min There's something uncanny about the stride of Charlotte Rampling. In this film she's the Matron, the head instructor at Sparrow School, the secret camp where Russia trains its hardest, deadliest spies. Maybe it's her boots that make… Read More

mother! review — An ambitious, divisive, mind-blower of a movie

October 5, 2017 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Darren Aronofsky | 121 min | Netflix, Amazon Prime, On Demand Far and away the most controversial film of the year so far, mother! earned an F grade from Cinemascore, indicating Las Vegas test audiences were not at all happy with their experience at the movies. I'm not surprised: mother! is barbed, with… Read More

Passengers (2016) review — Space jaunt scuppered by script’s fatal flaw

December 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Morten Tyldum | Written by Jon Spaihts | 116 min The trailers for this film, despite being a bit muddled, have revealed quite a bit about it. If you've seen them then you know Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) are passengers on an enormous space ship headed for a distant solar… Read More

X-Men: Apocalypse review — Sluggish superhero-fest shines sporadically

May 29, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Bryan Singer | Written by Simon Kinberg, with Singer, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris | 144 min | ▲▲▲△△ This is the sixth X-Men epic, not counting the two Wolverine spin-off movies (with a third on the way). But the 1980s-set X-Men: Apocalypse is also the third movie in a soft reboot of the franchise,… 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

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 review — A disappointing conclusion

November 29, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Francis Lawrence | Written by Peter Craig, Danny Strong, and Suzanne Collins, from Collins' novel | 137 min How exactly does such a compelling series of blockbuster films, with the biggest star in the world front and centre, go so quickly from thrilling to sad and drab? I'm still trying to figure it… Read More