Filmrecensies van Eric Hillis

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

Wright's film may be an unfocussed mess that can't decide what tone it's aiming for, but a sequel that's happy to eschew the knuckle-headed social commentary and simply deliver monster movie thrills wouldn't be unwelcome. Recensie

At two and a half hours, The Fabelmans is tough going, a lot like watching your rich neighbour's holiday footage if they had brought a professional cinematographer on holiday. Recensie

Lerman proves himself as capable of creating a suspenseful action sequence as any of his Hollywood peers. Recensie

Martone uses its geography, with its narrow streets and moped traffic to create the paranoid sense that trouble can emerge from any doorway or from around any corner at any time. Recensie

At little over an hour long, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra never quite allows us to get to know the various human characters that fall victim to the mattress, and as a result the melancholy Sye-young appears to be aiming for never quite hits home. Recensie

Endless Content Forever is a lot like a millennial screaming at their own generation to get off their lawn when they actually live in a fourth floor apartment. Recensie

Despite its experimental trappings, there's a clear narrative here, but by the end you might find yourself questioning whether a more conventionally dramatic approach might have done this examination of mental illness and familial trauma more justice. Recensie

Rather than creating a fictional heroine, we're left to wonder why the writer/director didn't focus his attention on memorialising one of the real life women who lost their lives at the hands of Hanaei. Recensie

The thrillers that have come from the Blumhouse stable usually stumble when they attempt social satire with a straight face (think of the awful Purge series, the embarrassingly bad Black Christmas remake and whatever Run Sweetheart Run was), but their best movies are those that employ satire (Happy Death Day, Freaky). M3GAN is an addition to the latter camp... Recensie

As a problematic character, Tár is entertainingly awful, but awfully entertaining. Recensie

In essence Vienne may have simply filmed her play, but by centering the face of Brooks she employs one of cinema's great advantages over the stage – the close-up. Watching Brooks wrestle with his grisly memories makes for a deeply uncomfortable 60 minutes, and Capdevielle is creepily convincing as someone who has engaged in the sort of acts that fuel TV's True Crime industry. Recensie

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. Recensie