Filmrecensies van Eric Hillis

The narrative doesn't come together as satisfyingly as you might like, and the time-travel aspect is really just a way to enliven flashbacks, but Mysius and her romantic partner Paul Guilhaume keep us invested with some beautiful visuals that capture the frostiness of the Alpine region. Recensie

Scrofano can't do much with her broad character, but Gao gives the film's standout performance – I found her an utterly compelling presence, despite frowning at the arc of her character. Recensie

Hansen-Løve's protagonists are usually glamorous women whose job is to translate some Austrian philosopher's work into French, and they always seem to live in Parisian apartments that should be well out of their pay-grade. But with One Fine Morning she's made a movie on a universal theme. Recensie

The only positive aspect of Spoonful of Sugar is Saylor's performance. Recensie

When Sorogoyen takes the narrative into full-on thriller territory, he does so in stunningly effective fashion. Recensie

Hill dedicates his film to western master Budd Boetticher, which only serves to remind us of how well this sort of thing has been done in the past. Recensie

Dambrine and De Waele prove themselves remarkable young talents. Recensie

Pearl owes a debt to a lot of previous movies, and to America's real life history of colourful homicidal maniacs, but its primary coloured presentation and heavy reliance on the offbeat charisma of its young leading lady make it something of a unique experience in the current monotonous landscape of the mainstream American horror movie. Recensie

There's just enough here to keep fans of this long-running series content for two hours, but it's unlikely to become a disc you pull from the Rocky/Creed boxset too often. Recensie

Banks may be guilty of a few narrative missteps, but she's delivered on her movie's outrageous promise. She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie. Recensie

Rather than making parents fearful of the generation they're currently raising, it aims to make you remember how dark a time your own teen years might have been. Recensie

It may end in a thoroughly unsatisfying manner, with a "crime doesn't pay" coda that belongs in a Hays Code-era gangster picture, but for its first two thirds Sharper is a genuinely thrilling thriller, populated by charismatic stars playing people whose livelihood depends on charisma. Recensie

For a less disingenuous version of this sort of thing, you can check out Xavier Dolan's Mommy or Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs, but Jackman and Dern do such good work here that The Son is worth a watch, even if it will leave a sour taste in your mouth. Recensie

What could have been a Parasite-esque blackly comic thriller that shines a light on the darker side of Korean society is instead a pale imitation of the Japanese films of Kore-eda, who this misstep aside is arguably the greatest filmmaker of his generation. Recensie

Legge has done a wonderful job with limited means, reinvigorating the played-out found footage genre by looking past The Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity to the films of Watkins, which despite what fans of Cannibal Holocaust would have you believe, mark the real beginnings of the sub-genre. Recensie

Anyone who attended Catholic school may find enough relatable creepiness in the setting, but for a convent-based horror it's nun too scary... Recensie

Soderbergh's ability to fashion a fun sequence occasionally enlivens the by-the-numbers drama but with a central romantic plot you'll be hard pressed to care about, Magic Mike's Last Dance has occasional bumps but is mostly a grind. Recensie

Polley opens her film with a pretentious bit of text that declares her film a work of "female imagination." A flight of fancy might be more apt. Recensie

Yet while we're kept gripped by the potentially looming apocalypse and the smaller human drama between Eric and Andrew, the film runs out of ideas in its final stretch... Recensie

There's an important conversation that might have been started by The Whale, but Aronofsky's condescending approach will likely shut down any potential dialogue, which is a shame. Recensie

She is Love is a film that seems to be making up its story as it goes. None of its revelations are particularly interesting, just the sort of everyday issues that tend to break up relationships. Recensie

For all my complaints, I had fun with Plane. Recensie

It wouldn't take too much tinkering with the script to elevate The Lair above its Friday night six-pack and curry aspirations. That said, in an era when so few mainstream genre films are content to simply deliver a fun time, perhaps that's not such a bad ambition. Recensie

Skinamarink has become something of a cult sensation, and any curious fan of horror/arthouse cinema will want to try peering into its darkness. What you see in its shadows may depend on what you bring to it yourself. Let me know what colour you think this dress is. Recensie