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The Drama review — Secrets, lies, and cringe delights

April 4, 2026 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Kristoffer Borgli | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲ There's a tradition of Scandi cringe comedy that's like freebasing crack versus the straight-ahead cocaine of the brand elsewhere in the world. Consider the excruciating, dark humour of The Celebration, Force Majeure, Riders of Justice, or Another Round. Norwegian filmmaker Borgli — whose last… Read More

Challengers review — Sexy tennis movie holds to love

April 30, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Luca Guadagnino | Written by Justin Kuritzkes | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime Hot as the sun at the US Open, Luca Guadagnino's new drama channels tennis as an allegory for competitive relationships while offering enough on-court action to work, most of the time, as a sports movie. At its burning heart it's a… Read More

Spider-Man: No Way Home review — Amazing and spectacular, both

December 20, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | 148 min | Netflix Let's have a chat about the definition of "fan service." It's a term that gets thrown around a lot lately, especially in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's the idea is that these movies' producers are pandering… 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

Spider-Man: Far From Home review — Playfully entertaining teen superheroing, if a little long

July 3, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers | 129 min | Netflix ...or Peter Parker's European Vacation. And who could blame the guy (winningly played by Tom Holland again) for wanting some downtime? For a 16-year-old, he's had more than his fair share of grief—with the passing of a father… Read More

Spider-Man: Homecoming review — Fresh focus on teen superheroing

July 8, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Watts | Written by Watts, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers | 133 min Yes, another reboot of the Spider-Man franchise—Andrew Garfield, we barely knew ye—this time with six writers, not including the original comic creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. None of that bodes well.… Read More