Tag Archives: Stellan Skarsgaard

Sentimental Value review — Superb from start to finish

November 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed bu Joachim Trier | Written by Trier and Eskil Vogt | 133 min | ▲▲▲▲▲ | Amazon Prime An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during coverage of the Atlantic International Film Festival A second time watching Sentimental Value, away from the subcutaneous hum of the festival season, confirms what I suspected… Read More

Thor: Love and Thunder review — A few good laughs, but otherwise uninspired

July 8, 2022 flawintheiris

Written by Taika Waititi | Written by Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson | 119 min | ▲▲△△△ I wonder if anyone would've predicted back in 2011 that Thor would be the first hero to reach four movies by 2022 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his name in the title. I'm sure even fewer would… Read More

Hope review — Existential fears at the heart of Norwegian cancer drama

January 15, 2022 flawintheiris

Original title: Håp | Written and Directed by Maria Sødahl | 130 min | On Demand | ▲▲▲▲△ It's late December. Anja (Andrea Bræin Hovig) is a 40-something dancer and cancer survivor living in Olso — she'd had a bout of lung cancer the previous year. She also has a troubled relationship with the much-older… Read More

Dune review — A cinematic feast

October 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth, based on the Frank Herbert book | 155 min | Netflix Oh, how we have waited for Dune. Of all the 2020 features postponed by the pandemic, this is the one I was most looking forward to seeing, and seeing on the… Read More

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again review — ABBA musequel delivers fragrant cheese and fun

July 23, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ol Parker | Written by Parker, Richard Curtis, and Catherine Johnson, based on the musical by Johnson | 114 min | Netflix I know I saw the first Mamma Mia! from 10 years ago, but I don't remember much beyond Meryl Streep having a blast. I recall the on-location cinematography clashing badly with… Read More

VOD Reviews — Chappaquiddick, Hampstead, Borg vs McEnroe

July 17, 2018 flawintheiris

Chappaquiddick Directed by John Curran | Written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan | 106 min This must be the final piece of the Kennedy legend to find its way to the big screen. If they've finally arrived at the Ted Kennedy story, the scandal of his having driven drunk leading to the death of… Read More

Our Kind of Traitor review — Ordinary spycraft

July 30, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Susanna White | Written by Hossein Amini, based on the John Le Carré novel | 108 min | ▲▲△△△ Poetry professor Perry (Ewan McGregor) and barrister Gail (Naomie Harris) are a couple in trouble. They head to North Africa to see if a romantic getaway might help their marital strife. There they meet Dima… Read More

Avengers: Age of Ultron review — The biggest, but not necessarily the best

May 1, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Joss Whedon, from the Marvel Comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby After 10 movies set in this particular Marvel Cinematic Universe, we know these costumed folks now. They're fun to spend time with, what with the jokes and fighting and punching. But the filmmakers also have the added pressure of… Read More

The Jack Ryan Franchise: An Accidental Secret Agent

December 1, 2014 flawintheiris

Jack Ryan has lived many lives. A character who originated in a series of popular Tom Clancy novels, he's kept coming back to the movies in a series from Paramount Studios — played by four actors in five pictures released over 24 years, with Ryan repositioned through shifting political eras with varying degrees of success.… Read More

Thor: The Dark World review

November 11, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Alan Taylor | Screenplay by Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely | Story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat | From the Marvel Comic by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby | 111 min | Netflix Hard to believe this is the eighth big-budget entertainment in this daisy-chain of Marvel movies,… Read More