Tag Archives: Jude Law

The Wizard of the Kremlin review — The dark road to Putin

June 25, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Oliver Assayas | Written by Assayas and Emmanuel Carrère, based on the novel by Giuliano Da Empoli | 137 min | ▲▲▲ | On VOD An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the coverage of #TIFF2025 I’m a fan of Assayas, especially his pictures with Kristen Stewart (The Clouds of… Read More

Eden review — Paradise found and lost

October 26, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Ron Howard | Written by Howard and Noah Pink | 129 min | ▲▲▲ | On Prime An earlier version of this review appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024. It's taken awhile for Ron Howard's survivalist melodrama (written by Haligonian Noah Pink, who also did Tetris) to arrive after it premiered… Read More

The Order review — Terrifically tense neo-Nazi thriller

February 8, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Justin Kurzel | Written by Zach Baylin, based on the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt | 116 min | | ▲▲▲1/2 | Prime This is a based-on-real-events crime drama from Australian hyphenate Kurzel, maybe best known in North America for his version of Macbeth with Michael Fassbender, or the video game… Read More

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore review — The Cursed Franchise

April 25, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by David Yates | Written by JK Rowling and Steve Kloves | 142 min | ▲▲△△△ | Crave OK, so maybe calling these movies "cursed" is an over-dramatization — but let me make my case: This is a Harry Potter-related franchise where they'd secured a wildly talented star as its bad guy — Colin… Read More

The Nest review — Engrossing domestic drama dunks on ’80s materialism

May 12, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Sean Durkin | 107 min | Crave Plus Do you remember, way back in 2011, there was a much-discussed indie picture about a young woman trying to deprogram herself from years spent with a cult, called Martha Marcy May Marlene? This is the filmmaker's follow-up, coming nine years after the fact.… Read More

The Rhythm Section review — spy drama upends genre expectations

February 3, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Reed Morano | Written by Mark Burnell, who adapts his own novel | 109 min This picture is more interesting, and more ambitious, than most of the reviewers have given it credit for. In fact, the biggest problem I have with it is I keep wanting to call it The Rhythm Method, which… Read More

Reviews: Vox Lux, On The Basis Of Sex, Bumblebee, Destination Wedding, The Mummy, Under The Silver Lake

May 1, 2019 flawintheiris

Vox Lux Brady Corbet's film is a strange animal, a drama about a pop star that's also a treatise on fame and the responsibility of art to inspire both violence and healing. Not all of its ideas work, but it deserves kudos for what it tries to do more than what it succeeds at. The… Read More

Captain Marvel review — Not an interstellar debut, but entertaining

March 8, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | Written by Bowden, Fleck, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman, and Meg LeFauve | 124 min | Disney + Well, it certainly took them long enough. I'm talking about a Marvel Studios superhero movie with a female lead. It should've been Black Widow, way back in the MCU second… Read More

10 Great Richard E. Grant roles

February 20, 2019 flawintheiris

The undisputed media star of this year's Academy Awards season—coming to a conclusion with the ceremony on Sunday, February 24—is the Swaziland-born veteran actor Richard E. Grant. Those of us deeply embedded in the cult of his first feature film, Withnail and I, are especially enjoying the various articles about Grant's enthusiasm, and his deft social… Read More

The Holiday (2006) review — The verdict on the popular seasonal romcom

December 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed and Written by Nancy Meyers | 132 min | CBC Gem, Crave So, this is what happened: A friend and colleague at work and I got talking about Christmas movies. She raved about The Holiday. She says it's a delight, with just the right mix of sweetness and romcom magic, and for those with… Read More