Tag Archives: Margaret Qualley

How To Make A Killing review — Dial meh for murder

February 21, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by John Patton Ford | 105 min | ▲▲ This filmmaker wowed audiences his last time out with a cracking, pertinent thriller, Emily The Criminal. More's the shame he's bungled the follow-up, a picture that arrives with a promising satiric premise but never achieves anything close to that promise. If you've seen… Read More

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

October 22, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Richard Linklater | Written by Robert Kaplow | ▲▲▲▲ | Crave 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… Read More

Honey Don’t! review — Fab lesbian b-movie comedy noir

August 25, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Ethan Coen | Written by Coen and Tricia Cooke | 89 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Amazon Prime In February of last year we got a scrappy, shaggy lesbian comedy from the husband and wife team of Coen and Cooke — Drive Away Dolls. It suffered a little in comparison to the many classics… Read More

Happy Gilmore 2 review — Below par, but a good walk

July 30, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Kyle Newacheck | Written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler | 114 min | ▲▲1/2 | Netflix Can you believe it's been almost 30 years since Happy Gilmore came out? It remains Adam Sandler's most beloved film — I mean, besides Punch Drunk Love — and he's finally come up with a sequel.… Read More

Kinds of Kindness review — Perverse brilliance from Lanthimos and Filippou

July 1, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos | Written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou | 164 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Crave A bit of a surprise when it was first announced, Kinds of Kindness comes hot on the heels of the Greek auteur Lanthimos' impressive Poor Things, which earned Emma Stone her second Oscar win. This new movie… Read More

Drive-Away Dolls review — Horny and gay party times

February 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ethan Coen | Written by Coen and Tricia Cooke | 84 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Netflix There's a scene late in the running in Drive-Away Dolls where one prominent, recognizable star throws the head of another prominent, recognizable star, which is in a box full of ice, down the street at the feet… Read More

Sanctuary review — A bonded pair

September 1, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Zachary Wigon | Written by Micah Bloomberg | 96 min |▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime When Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) walks into a hotel room where Hal (Christopher Abbott) is staying, she's wearing a blonde wig so patently awful right away you'll wonder about her bona fides. Apparently she's there to interview him about insurance… Read More

Stars At Noon review — Margaret Qualley makes it worth seeing

December 13, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Claire Denis | Written by Denis and Andrew Litvack, from a novel by Denis Johnson | 135 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On Digital and VOD Claire Denis is having a good month. Her film Beau Travail is Top 10 on Sight And Sound's Greatest Films of All Time, and her second English-language feature… Read More

My Salinger Year review — New York writer makes it after all

March 7, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Philippe Falardeau | Written by Falardeau, based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff | 101 min | Crave Plus There's the Coming Of Age movie, the Ambitious Youth Comes To The Big City movie, and the Fish Out Of Water movie, and My Salinger Year is a cross section of all three.… Read More

Kristen Stewart film reviews: Seberg, Lizzie, JT LeRoy, Underwater

June 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Kristen Stewart is working nonstop these days — she's been in five features in the past three years, the highest profile being Charlie's Angels, with Happiest Season still expected later in 2020. The actor achieved fame through the sparkly vampire-ridden Twilight series, but in recent years has pursued far more interesting and varied feature work.… Read More