Tag Archives: John Madden

Operation Mincemeat review — A thrilling piece of wartime history

July 12, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden | Written by Michelle Ashford, based on a book by Ben Macintyre | 128 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Netflix Sometimes a genre picture, otherwise conventional in many ways, can excel just via its commitment to the material, stylish choices in the direction, and a collection of unimpeachable performances. That's what's happened… Read More

Miss Sloane review — Chastain burns in taut political thriller

December 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden | Written by Jonathan Perera | 132 min Of all the alchemy Hollywood spins, a satisfying thriller feels to me like the most impressive, given all the elements that need to work for success. It especially needs to manage, sustain, and build suspense over its running time. Miss Sloane delivers—and not because it… Read More

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review — More of the same, and less

March 8, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden, written by Madden and Ol Parker If you're a big fan of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, I would be lying if I told you the sequel doesn't deliver more of what made the first one a hit: A wonderful group of talented, mostly British actors working through a predictable script about… Read More

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel review

June 3, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by John Madden Written by Ol Parker from a Deborah Moggach novel These Foolish Things With a cast like this, in this environment, it's hard to not like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I've read some reviews that criticize the picture for riding too much on the charm of that cast, with too little… Read More

The Debt review

September 4, 2011 flawintheiris

Directed by John MaddenWritten by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan,based on the film Ha-Hov by Assaf Bernstein and Ido RosenblumRachel Singer (Helen Mirren), ex-husband Stephan Gold (Tom Wilkinson) and ex-pat David Peretz (Ciaran Hinds) are national heroes in their homeland of Israel. In the mid-1960s they were Mossad agents, assigned to East Berlin… Read More