Tag Archives: Saoirse Ronan

Occupied City and Blitz reviews — Steve McQueen’s Second World War stories

November 12, 2024 flawintheiris

The Outrun review — Savage addiction journey finds solace in nature

October 3, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Nora Fingscheidt | Written by Fingscheidt, Daisy Lewis, and Amy Liptrot, based on the memoir by Liptrot | 118 min | ▲▲▲▲△ This is a loosely fictionalized adaptation of Amy Liptrot's addiction memoir. It details how she left London following a stint in rehab after her life was dissolved by alcoholism. She went… Read More

See How They Run review — It was Agatha all along

November 27, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Tom George | Written by Mark Chappell | 98 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Disney+ What we have here is an entirely self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, Agatha Christie-dragging whodunnit, stuffed with a delightful cast who completely understand what kind of movie they're in and swing for the fences. Accordingly, See How They Run is a delightful… Read More

The French Dispatch review — I don’t really get it. Still worth seeing, though.

November 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugh Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman | 108 min | In Cinemas I've long appreciated Wes Anderson's strange magic. I have plenty of time for his tiny twee classics like Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the writer-director's masterpiece, The Grand Budapest Hotel.… Read More

Ammonite review — Lesbian love story worth seeing for the performances

November 16, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Frances Lee | 120 min | CBC Gem Francis Lee’s follow-up to God’s Own Country is a period drama set on a surf-swept shore featuring a romance between two women, but don’t let any surface similarity to Portrait Of A Lady On Fire lead you on. The tone here, of muted… Read More

Little Women (2019) review — Greta Gerwig reimagines a classic text

December 29, 2019 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott | 135 min | Netflix Having seen four earlier versions adapting this material in the past week—though not having read the book—I came to this newest edition feeling like I know this story pretty well, but hoping Gerwig could present it… Read More

Mary Queen of Scots review — Stuffy costume drama suffers from cliche

December 24, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Josie Rourke | Written by Beau Willimon, based on the book by John Guy | 124 min | Netflix I have to confess, if I hadn't seen The Favourite a little more than 48 hours ago, Mary Queen of Scots might not have seemed so dull and conventional in its storytelling. Though the… Read More

On Chesil Beach review — aka The Doomed Honeymoon

May 30, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Dominic Cooke | Written by Ian McEwan, adapting his novel | 109 min Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle) are young and awkward and English. It's 1962 and they're newlyweds. Earlier in the day, they got married at the Dorset seaside and are now alone together in the marital suite. As they… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: January 2018

February 4, 2018 flawintheiris

Here is a cross-section of a number of mildly-to-firmly recommended films now available on Canadian Netflix. (You can click on the movie titles to read my original reviews where I’ve written them in the past.) Bright Director David Ayers and screenwriter Max Landis. What a pair. They've got to be the most divisive creative team… Read More

A second visit with Lady Bird

January 28, 2018 flawintheiris

I do this with a few features in the cinema—see them again with someone who hasn't seen it, and thereby gather another impression—partly just for checking out something I think is worthy of another look, and partly for hashing it out after the lights come up, which often brings fresh revelations. And what better time… Read More