Movie reviews of Eric Hillis

These are all the movies and series that Eric has reviewed. Read more at: The Movie Waffler.

Number of movie reviews: 2050 / 2050

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The glue that holds the film together is Armstrong's performance. There are scenes that she rescues from Cage's somnambulist performance by injecting an energy curiously absent from her older co-star's turn. Ultimately it's Armstrong's film, and without making it explicit, the young actress does enough to suggest that she knows it too. Review

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2023-01-04

2023

It's atmospheric to a point but never quite as unsettling as it wants to be, and despite its lofty air it resorts to cattleprod jump scares at points, Jenkin boosting the volume for an effect that relies on primitive shock rather than well constructed scares. Review

6.0

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2023-01-03

2023

Pereda has made a strikingly assured feature debut. Sequences are pieced together with the studied skill of a veteran rather than a debutant. Review

7.0

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2023-01-01

2023

Through Hilary and Stephen's relationship we get two awful tropes – the white saviour and the magic negro, with each serving to rescue the other. Review

3.0

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2022-12-28

2022

Dickinson does a remarkable job in creating a sense of time and place, and despite the cast speaking with British accents, the snow-covered sets and frosty windows convince us we're in the Russia of the 1800s. It's just a shame there isn't more for us to become emotionally invested in beyond awaiting an awful man's just deserts. Review

7.0

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2022-12-22

2022

It doesn't really work as either a slasher or a whodunit, but there is fun to be had with Exploited if you approach it in the right frame of mind (ie very drunk or very stoned). Review

6.0

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2022-12-20

2022

Elsewhere Chazelle fills his movie with reenactments of famous Old Hollywood anecdotes and reworkings of scenes from other movies. Some of the comic vignettes are in dire need of editing... Review

9.0

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2022-12-17

2022

The dialogue is truly atrocious, with lines a six-year-old kid would be embarrassed to have come out of the mouths of toy soldiers in his back yard. Review

5.0

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2022-12-14

2022

Along with the standard biopic storytelling, Smoczyńska integrates elements of the various fantastical stories the girls conjured up, giving us magic realist images like that of a teenage boy drowning in a pool of Pepsi. Review

7.0

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2022-12-09

2022

It's that absence of humour that proves Christmas Bloody Christmas's greatest folly. After the satirical opening sequence it's played relatively straight, but with no characters we care for there's a lack of stakes. Review

5.0

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2022-12-06

2022

There's a lot of grimness in Rimini, but it's mostly a case of punching up, as Seidl mocks middle-class Europeans and their milquetoast taste in entertainment. Review

8.0

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2022-12-03

2022

Nocebo review Finnegan puts us in the uncomfortable position of feeling contemptuous towards a villain whose actions we're entirely complicit with. He also takes a wry jab at capitalism's current hypocritical obsession with... Review

7.0

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2022-12-01

2022

For all its flaws and the bitter taste it leaves, Summering is eminently watchable. This is solely down to how engaging its young leads are. Review

6.0

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2022-11-29

2022

Arseni Khachaturan's naturalistic cinematography and Guadagnino's refusal to indulge in showy visuals greatly add to the gritty texture of Bones and All. Review

8.0

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2022-11-24

2022

While you may not believe much of what you see in Armageddon Time, it may leave you impressed in parts. Review

6.0

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2022-11-19

2022

At best, Confess, Fletch plays like a serviceable pilot for a TV show, and Slattery's Frank would make for a welcome recurring character. As a standalone movie, there just isn't enough substance to this endeavour. Review

5.0

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2022-11-17

2022

Mescal and Corio have such a wonderful and believable chemistry that it's easy to forget they're being filmed. But Aftersun is the work of a new master filmmaker, an instant expert in pure cinema. Review

9.0

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2022-11-12

2022

The Menu comes off as a comedy roast, a self-effacing but entirely unscathing in-joke among elites. Review

6.0

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2022-11-10

2022

Madden and Laidlaw are always watchable as they perform their unsettling dance around one another, and Mandrake works best when it's examining the dark lengths mothers can go to when it comes to protecting their own children. When it later expands into the surrounding forest and loses sight of this simple dynamic, Mandrake gets a little lost in the woods. Review

6.0

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2022-11-08

2022

It's a very smart film, but also a very thrilling movie, a rollercoaster that can be relished in the moment and contemplated weeks later. Review

9.0

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2022-11-05

2022

It's difficult not to view Causeway as a piece of US government propaganda. Review

5.0

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2022-11-04

2022

The relationship between the two plays out like a "nicecore" alternative to Phantom Thread, and it's a pleasure to spend time in their company. Review

8.0

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2022-11-03

2022

The bland cenobite designs aside, there are some interesting visual ideas at play here. Much of the action takes place in a decrepit mansion designed to be something of a puzzle box itself, an idea Bruckner ports over from his previous movie The Night House. Review

5.0

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2022-11-02

2022

Parker and Kohli's empathetic performances go a long way to winning us over. They share a remarkable chemistry, convincing as two lost souls who might just have found something worth living for. Review

7.0

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2022-11-01

2022

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