Tag Archives: streaming

Hedda review — Nia DaCosta’s modern update on Ibsen

November 8, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Nia DaCosta | Written by DaCosta, based on the play Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen | ▲▲1/2 | On Prime Nia DaCosta bounces back from the good time but bad box office of The Marvels with an adaptation of Ibsen, something more tragic and arty, with all the associated ambitions. It's best at… 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

Frankenstein review — Monstrously beautiful, but it shambles

October 24, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapting the novel by Mary Shelley | 149 min | ▲▲▲ | In Cinemas and on Netflix An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Guillermo del Toro has said this is the film he's always wanted to make, an… Read More

The Woman in Cabin 10 review — Watery mystery quickly sinks

October 10, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Simon Stone | Written by Stone, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse, based on an adaptation by Emma Frost and a novel by Ruth Ware | 92 min | ▲1/2 | Netflix There's at least a couple of great Hollywood murder mysteries on the water — Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim's The Last of… Read More

All Of You review — Scifi, romance, melodrama, tears

October 6, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by William Bridges | Written by Bridges and Brett Goldstein | 98 min | ▲▲▲ | Apple TV+ This might be the first film I've seen Goldstein in following the undeniable, inexorable Roy Kent from Ted Lasso, such an unforgettable character. I mean, he was here, he was there, he was every- fucking-where, right? Goldstein… Read More

Bone Lake review — Sexy horror? Bland and blander.

October 3, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan | Written by Joshua Friedlander | 94 min | ▲1/2 | VOD I don't like criticizing actors in my reviews. Any time an actor seems uncomfortable in a role, if there's fault to be found it's always in the production — with the script, the direction, or the producers for… Read More

Highest 2 Lowest review — Spike Lee’s hip-hop Kurosawa joint

September 28, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Spike Lee | Screenplay by Alan Fox, based on Akira Kurosawa's High And Low, written by Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, and Eijirô Hisaita, and the book King's Ransom by Evan Hunter | 133 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Apple TV+ At the heart of this picture is a conundrum that Spike Lee and Alan… Read More

Emmanuelle (2024) review — Beautiful, remote update of erotic drama

August 13, 2025 flawintheiris

Directed by Audrey Diwan | Written by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, based on the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan | 107 min | ▲▲▲ | on VOD For those who may not know, or remember, the Emmanuelle series was a wildly popular collection of softcore porn dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, both theatrical and the made-for-TV… Read More

Weapons review — The kids are not alright

August 11, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Zach Cregger | 128 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | Crave It's easy to see why some in the audience might think the new horror/drama by Zach Cregger (Barbarian), about a group of vanished children, is a school-shooting analogy, but there's more going on here than that. In fact, there might be too… Read More

Together review — The horror of pairing up

August 1, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Michael Shanks | 102 min | ▲▲▲▲1/2 | VOD One of my biggest gripes about horror movies as a genre is how few genuinely fresh ideas are produced within it. Filmmakers are inordinately satisfied with regurgitating the same jump-scares, the same stomach-churning gore, the same themes. So when someone shows up… Read More