Movie reviews of Eric Hillis

Birthday Girl engages in the nuanced character building of great European cinema while also delivering the sort of adult-oriented thrills that were once Hollywood's stock in trade. Review

This black and white production may not boast the technicolor and lavish sequences of the Archers' more famous works, but it's a visually striking film nonetheless. Review

Danger is ever-present, death never more than one mistake away. Everyone is respected, but nobody can be trusted. Review

We know how a movie like this will climax, but Nightsiren doesn't build up to its harrowing denouement so much as decide to arbitrarily drop it once it realises there are only 20 minutes left to go. Review

Nash understands that there's something explicitly life-affirming about witnessing fictional characters meet wildly violent demises. Review

With Hollywood intent on not just embracing AI but propagandising it with films like The Creator and Atlas, auteurs like Bonello and films like The Beast are set to play an important role. Review

Twilight of the Warriors is a comic book movie in a way Hollywood comic book movies haven't been for a long time. It's not afraid to look silly and delivers a series of larger than life heroes and villains ripped from colourful splash pages and embodied by a cast that understands the job at hand. Review

There's probably a very effective 30 minute short to be edited from The Coffee Table, but as a feature film it's something of a patience tester. Review

But thankfully such moments are few and far between as this is mostly a movie built around practical effects and stunts, of men and motors, women and wheels, all smashing into one another for our viewing pleasure. Miller, you mad bastard, you've done it again. Review

Harlin's direction is so uninspired that you can almost predict the exact sequence of shots he's about to unspool in every scene. Review

Amid all the passionate pleading and pseudo-philosophy is a striking turn by Faure, an actress who has spent the past decade in minor roles but who delivers a performance here that suggests she's destined for full-on movie star status. Review

It has that Lynchian quality of looking like our world but being just off enough to make us wonder if this was actually made by humans. Douglas Burke returns in a second role that is widely offensive but undeniably hilarious. Review

It's a shame Double Blind fumbles its storytelling as in every other aspect it's an impressive, polished production that squeezes every cent out of its limited budget. Review

If it doesn't quite offer enough originality in its storytelling to make for a great standalone entry, Kingdom fills its obligations as a new trilogy kickstarter, laying the foundation for an exciting new round of the ongoing conflict between man and ape. Even those who are unconvinced by this chapter will be pumped for the potential its ending sets up. Review

Thanks to Hoffman's late intervention, the audience may leave the film with a curiosity for O'Connor that the rest of the film fails to inspire. Review

There's a ton of evidence here to suggest Carmoon is an exciting talent, as indeed are her two young leads. Hoard is a movie that teems with life, in all its messiness. Review

For over two hours this is a magical and moving tribute to a lost era of filmmaking and film appreciation. Review

When it comes to mining scares from its own premise, Tarot isn't playing with a full deck. Review

I'm unconvinced if it all really amounts to anything substantial, but La Chimera is often intoxicating, the sort of movie that makes you feel like you're on an adventurous holiday. Review

Demons Are Forever never gets under your skin like its grittier predecessor. Review

Chavleishvili's performance is simultaneously alive and closed, forcing us to work hard to figure out what Etero really wants from her life. Review

Far from faceless victims, Rosman makes sure to humanise these people so that we're genuinely affected by their fates, and later the toll the realisation of her condition takes on Jessica. Review

For all the flashy visuals - which ironically come courtesy of Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – this is a movie that's all about performance, both of the athletes at the centre of its story and of the three young stars embodying them. Review

For all the commentary on the silliness of our earthly disputes, I.S.S. descends into a rather by the numbers space thriller. Review