Tag Archives: Nicholas Hoult

Superman (2025) review — Why can’t they make a good one?

July 14, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster | 129 min | ▲▲ | Crave Welcome to the new James Gunniverse of DC Comics heroes, replacing the Zack Snyderverse, which had its fans — I wasn't one of them — but it flamed out.… 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

Nosferatu review — Dracula resurrection faithful to a fault

January 4, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Robert Eggers | Written by Eggers, adapting Henrik Galeen's film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) and Bram Stoker's Dracula | 132 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Amazon Prime The first thing to know about Nosferatu is it's a visual and aural feast in the cinema. This reviewer had the pleasure of seeing it… Read More

Juror #2 review — A perfectly cromulent courtroom drama

December 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Clint Eastwood | Written by Jonathan A. Abrams | 114 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave Juror #2 is a comfortingly old-school American courtroom drama, complete with a first act of lawyers, witnesses, and jurors, and a second act of deliberation. The thing that's wowing critics is these stories were told frequently in the… Read More

Renfield review — A bloody waste of time

August 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chris McKay | Written by Ryan Ridley, Robert Kirkman, and Ava Tramer | 93 min | ▲▲△△△ Like Cocaine Bear, this was one of those high-concept comedies that came out in the spring and I missed in cinemas, expecting to catch up with it on another platform. I don't think watching Renfield at… Read More

The Menu review — A tasty meal, not terribly filling

November 23, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Mark Mylod | Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy | 107 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave, Disney+ Having gone to a food analogy for the headline, I'll try to exercise a little restraint for the rest of this review. The Menu is a new comedy thriller about a group of diners who… Read More

The Current War: Director’s Cut review — Electrical history not quite brilliant

June 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Written by Michael Mitnick | 108 min | On Demand This is a historical drama with history. The Current War debuted at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival with the whiff of prestige. That's due to the cast, which includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, and Nicholas Hoult —… Read More

Tolkien review — Precious and predictable, but fine in places

May 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Dome Karukoski | Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford | 112 min | Crave Plus The cliches of the legendary author biopic start and end with the ways in which their personal life inspire—mirror, echo—their work. So, if a filmmaker wanted to do the utterly predictable thing, a film about JRR Tolkien… 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

Reviews: Equals, Anomalisa, Race

July 22, 2016 flawintheiris

Equals Directed by Drake Doremus | Written by Doremus and Nathan Parker | 101 min | ▲▲▲△△ | On iTunes Every so often a feature comes to online platforms that disappoints: Not because of the narrative quality of the film, but because it has such a gorgeous production design you can't help but wish you could watch it… Read More