Filmrecensies van Eric Hillis

These are hardly original notions, and no amount of stylistic strokes can disguise the fact that Eternal Beauty has little to add to the cinematic conversation around mental illness. Recensie

The Antenna broadcasts its own crude message of how we should be wary of media, but it does so through a stultifyingly dull narrative that doesn't really hold up to any scrutiny... Recensie

The filmmaking is so intimate in parts that it makes us feel uncomfortable, as though we're intruding on someone's private affairs... Recensie

For all its trippiness and integration of temporal physics, The Dead Ones ultimately boils down to killing off its young cast one by one. Recensie

Danzig does at least attempt to give his movie the look of a comic book with primary coloured lighting, costumes and production design, but he displays little aptitude for directing, and certainly not for pacing. Recensie

Khaou takes a quiet and studied approach to filming this outwardly simple but thematically complicated story. Recensie

If I were cruel, I might describe The Man in the Hat as inconsequential. It does play like an easy listening version of a Terrence Malick movie, and it might be accused of being a free promo for the French tourist board. Recensie

The explanation also makes us question some of the events depicted earlier, such as why Malik and Kayla were being intimidated if the villains needed them to stick around. Recensie

The Devil All the Time has the journeyman look of prestige TV, with impatient editing that's always desperate to move on to the next chapter or awkwardly return to an earlier important detail. Recensie

The term 'elevated horror' is often bandied about by snobs who feel the need to justify their enjoyment of a horror movie, but the truth is horror is the most elevated, most cinematic genre of them all. Durkin gets this. Recensie

Bellamacina is herself a poet, and composed the many verses rendered in voiceover throughout the film, so I guess we're meant to believe Celeste is gifted, but it all just sounded like word salad to my ignorant ears. Recensie

Mulan is a visually vivid but thematically tedious retelling of the Chinese legend. Recensie

A British based Italian transplant, Biancheri combines both nation's cinematic legacies to give us a beautifully acted piece of social realist drama that's also very easy on the eye. Recensie

With Blinders, Savage takes a well-worn stalker storyline, adds some contemporary fears, gives us a three-dimensional protagonist and weaves a solid thriller of the sort we just don't see all that often anymore. Recensie

The New Mutants is the most boring kind of superhero movie, one where nobody wants to be a superhero and everyone spends the film moaning about the burden of their powers. Recensie

The documentary broaches various subjects - such as how the filmmakers initially fell in love with the genre, how it provides great roles for women etc - but it moves so quickly between each topic that nothing gets covered with any satisfying substance. Recensie

Nightmare Radio is a typical horror anthology, populated by some good, bad and ugly shorts. Recensie

But if you're willing to indulge Kaufman, his film will get under your skin. Recensie

Like the vacuous models that populate its story, Crystal Eyes looks fantastic but there's not a lot going on beneath its pretty exterior. Recensie

Coming in under 85 minutes with relentless pacing and a minimum of dialogue, Ravage doesn't reinvent the grindhouse wheel in the manner of Coralie Fargeat's Revenge, but it does give it a shiny new set of hubcaps. In... Recensie

She Dies Tomorrow seems like a novel idea, but it has its roots in films like Stanley Kramer's On the Beach and Don McKellar's Last Night, in which characters resign themselves to imminent destruction. The difference here is that while previous films have featured a very concrete threat, the vessel of death is left ambiguous here. Recensie

Dunne's performance is palpably real and relatable, and she even integrates her self-consciousness regarding a birthmark under her left eye into her character's low self-esteem. Recensie

Tenet contains some of the most objectively impressive action set-pieces of modern mainstream cinema, but subjectively it's a bit of a bore. Recensie

If you can look past Baruchel's shoddy subtext-made-text, Random Acts of Violence offers enough thrills to keep genre fans engrossed. Recensie