Filmrecensies van Eric Hillis

The ensuing mayhem resembles something from a 70s horror movie, and manipulative though it may be, it's impossible not to feel your blood boiling at the antics of these self-entitled gits. Recensie

As with Garden State, Braff fills the movie with "feel now!" moments accompanied by middle of the road indie folk and even recited poetry, borrowing emotion that, like everything else about this project, will never be reciprocated. Recensie

Remove the comedy and In Order of Disappearance could have been a satisfying grym film, but sadly it's just the latest crime caper to fall somewhere below Tarantino and somewhere above Guy Ritchie. Recensie

If you're after a high octane spy thriller, you won't find it here. What you will find is an immaculately constructed and realistic look at the workings of Western intelligence, with a signature Hoffman performance that serves as a worthy bookend to his cinematic legacy. Recensie

Little details like this quickly pile up, so by the midpoint of the story we've lost all faith in the script. When the end credits roll, you'll wish you could temporarily suffer amnesia, so you can wipe the memory of this headache inducer. Recensie

The setting of Paris's famous catacombs, built to house the city's dead and now home to six million corpses, automatically adds a creepy atmosphere, and the movie succeeds initially by leaving things to our imagination and allowing us to half-glimpse images in the shadows. Towards the end, however, we enter crash, bang and wallop territory, and the movie begins to feel like a Youtube walk-through of a horror themed video game. Recensie

Reichardt removes all the usual tropes of the suspense thriller, and the result is a film that will test the patience of many a viewer. Stick with it though and you'll find it's an effective character drama, with a trio of cracking central performances. Recensie

While The Guest feels like a product of a more innocent era, it never explicitly references any earlier works, and never winks knowingly at its audience. This is a film that's unashamedly proud to be a genre movie, and so it should be, as it's the best thriller we've seen in a long, long time. Recensie

The film is comprised of three storylines, but I use that term loosely. They're really just jokes with no punchlines, and are so uninspired they would have been rejected by the producers of the worst of those many anthology series that clogged up Cable TV schedules in the 80s. Recensie

As it is, we'll have to file it under flawed, almost-masterpiece. Recensie

For a movie from the writer of The Station Agent and the director of Lars and the Real Girl, this is as safe and sugary as they come, but the charisma of Hamm, Bell and Arkin, combined with that indefinable romance of the featured sport, make it watchable for baseball novices. Recensie

Her character's immature potty mouth makes her intensely unlikable, but the film itself also trades in gutter humour. Recensie

The visual effects are very impressive, but all this hard work is wasted, as it never plays into creating any suspense or tension. Recensie

Like 2011's Limitless, Lucy is based on the ludicrous notion that humans only use 10% of our brain power. After watching the movie, I felt like I had lost 90% of my brain cells. Recensie

Deliver Us From Evil purports to be inspired by a real-life cop/priest duo in the NYPD. That sounds like the basis for a very interesting movie, but this isn't it. Recensie

Like the best parties, you won't remember a thing about The Expendables 3 the following morning, but you'll be glad you were there. Recensie

Relying on the charm of its cast rather than pulling you into anything approaching a story, What If feels like a pilot for a TV comedy series. It promises much but delivers little, yet you're left wanting more from its infectious characters. Recensie

Take away its instagram indie veneer and WGGOOTP is the sort of C-grade thriller that would have gone straight to video shelves back in the 90s. Recensie

Whatever you might think of his contentious off-screen persona, on-screen Depardieu is a big ball of charisma, and it's easy to see Deveraux as a seductive charmer, exuding a little boy lost vulnerability despite the protection of his wealth and status. Recensie

For a movie about fine cuisine, The Hundred Foot Journey is as bland as a service station panini; it'll fill a hole for a couple of hours, but you won't be thinking about it for too long afterwards. Recensie

This is a very worthwhile entry in the thriller genre, and it's the type of adult oriented genre offering we no longer get from mainstream Hollywood. Recensie

At an economical 81 minutes, Carbone makes every shot count, each cut snapping into place like an essential jigsaw puzzle piece. At a time when so many films favour bladder testing run times, Carbone reminds us that the secret of cinema lies in moments, not minutes. Recensie

The Grand Seduction ultimately comes up lacking in the originality department, but it has a breezy charm that makes it hard to dislike, and Gleeson is outstanding as a man who, in his words, “just wants to go to bed tired again.”... Recensie

God's Pocket is a film packed with ludicrous moments... Recensie