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Review of Timecrimes (2007)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Variety (12,700) on 26 May 2018

Timecrimes welds a B-movie plotline to precision-engineered writing and a down-to-earth style; add an engagingly sloppy, nonplussed hero, who…

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Review of Sergio and Sergei (2018)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 29 Apr 2018

The film's noble satirical intentions and upbeat air are able to carry it through its wobblier sections, which are probably intrinsic to an…

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Review of The Bookshop (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 20 Nov 2017

Its subversive undercurrent, embodied in fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, is what makes it really interesting…

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Review of Food of Love (2002)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Sep 2017

Pons has aimed for a performance-driven drama whose virtues are of the small-scale, low-key variety, with the director working within narrow…

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Review of Woodpeckers (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Sep 2017

Raw, intriguing and energetic despite its flaws, the film fades in dramatic power over its final stretch and doesn’t always do justice to…

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Review of Nobody's Watching (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Sep 2017

Though the script is pretty good on depicting the broken dreams that strew the path of the wannabe actor, its scope reaches wider, making it…

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Review of Kill Me Please (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Aug 2017

There's a nicely rendered sense of aesthetics, whether it’s in the safe pastel shades which fill Bea’s bedroom and which contrast with…

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Review of Abracadabra (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 22 Aug 2017

A brightly colored, eye-catching dark comedy that's inevitably hit-or-miss but never, ever dull…

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Review of Goya's Ghosts (2006)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Jul 2017

Ambitious script is stranded between entertainment and intellectualism, leaving us with a magnificent folly, thoroughly watchable for its visuals…

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Review of I Dream in Another Language (2017)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 Jul 2017

This tale of a young linguist seeking to keep a dying language alive is thought-provoking, visually compelling, and hopefully will help to…

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Review of The Olive Tree (2016)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 27 Feb 2017

A deceptively simple drama about a family and its thousand-year-old olive tree that is rooted in the best cinematic soil there is -- emotional…

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Review of The Hollow Point (2016)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Dec 2016

As homage, the film is visually striking, littered with moments of real cinematographic intelligence, and always watchable, in a nasty sort…

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Review of All About My Mother (1999)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Sep 2016

An emotionally satisfying and brilliantly played take on the ups and (mostly) downs of a group of less-than-typical female friends…

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Review of Sand Dollars (2015)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 Nov 2015

Playing out against a dreamy Caribbean backdrop, Sand Dollars is indeed about dreams, unpicking those of a gracefully aging lady and her young…

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Review of Flowers (2015)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Oct 2015

Flowers is an emotionally precise, subtle and quietly gripping exploration of the romance and remembrance that they evoke…

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Review of Flowers (2016)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Oct 2015

Flowers is an emotionally precise, subtle and quietly gripping exploration of the romance and remembrance that they evoke…

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Review of Flowers (2015)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Oct 2015

Flowers is an emotionally precise, subtle and quietly gripping exploration of the romance and remembrance that they evoke…

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Review of Regression (2015)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Sep 2015

This carefully-crafted tale of collective psychosis, satanic ritual abuse and pseudo-science, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson, is satisfying…

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Review of Marshland (2014)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 12 Aug 2015

Visually and atmospherically, Marshland is suffused with an eerie oppressiveness, entirely at odds with the region's reputation for light-hearted…

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Review of The Film Critic (2014)

By Jonathan Holland (58) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 13 May 2015

As the film's heart, the bearded, bearlike Spregelburd delivers a quiet, unemphatic performance, at its best when at its clumsiest and most…

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