Boyd van Hoeij

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Fujimoto, who also wrote the screenplay and edits, struggles to find a consistent tone that can accommodate both these harsh realities while ensuring his protagonists are not put directly in harm’s way. Go to Full Review Lost Land (2025) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Nov 3, 2025 The Last One for the Road never feels like it explores new territory in terms of its characters and situations. But the specific setting both in time and place make it a very vivid portrait of a place ravaged, like its characters, by time. Go to Full Review The Last One for the Road (2025) 89% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Nov 3, 2025 O’Keeffe really is Leopold’s secret weapon here, as she delivers a complex and layered performance of an angry, determined woman in an unusual predicament. Go to Full Review Whitetail (2025) 90% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 5, 2025 What sounds like a potentially interesting -- if not particularly original -- conceit yields results that are more often boring or baffling than actually insightful or at least intriguing. Go to Full Review Barrio Triste (2025) 71% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 1, 2025 Working like a well-oiled machine, despite the occasional longueur, this is the kind of film that mostly goes in the [direction] you’re expecting but it’s all so well done. Go to Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 90% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Aug 29, 2025 A bright, light confection about resilience and joie de vivre into old(er) age that’s as predictable as it is disposable. Go to Full Review Calle Malaga (2025) 98% - -

Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter Jul 1, 2025 A realistically told drama about one blue-collar man's struggle with keeping his head above water as he has to try and juggle life's curveballs. Go to Full Review Take It or Leave It (2018) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International May 21, 2025 The camera and soundwork is often striking and the result absorbing, though this kind of relentlessly downbeat work, however timely, will probably see more big-screen action at festivals than in commercial theatres. Go to Full Review Militantropos (2025) 80% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International May 21, 2025 [Imago] takes a straightforward approach, but should connect with audiences looking for moving human stories. Go to Full Review Imago (2025) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International May 18, 2025 Pinho’s interest in neo-colonial issues is tackled with a lucid gaze and appropriate room for local perspectives. Go to Full Review I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) 81% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Though the screenplay is occassionally a bit schematic, Night Stage is a sexy drama with thematic smarts to match. Go to Full Review Night Stage (2025) 85% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Feb 20, 2025 There might be a lot of dialogue, but looks, silences, hesitations and facial expressions are often just as telling, if not more so. Go to Full Review Ari (2025) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Feb 19, 2025 It looks appropriately poppy and appealing and, while there are a few longueurs, on the whole Lesbian Space Princess zips by, while delivering quite a few chuckles along the way. Go to Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 96% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Oct 28, 2024 The resulting gymnastic split is occasionally a little uncomfortable, but also charming in an immediate, earthy way. Go to Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 30, 2024 The family drama is fascinating, especially because Süer, who also wrote the screenplay, deftly uses often minimalistic dialogue to explore the crevices and contradictions of the men’s opposing viewpoints. Go to Full Review Edge of Night (2024) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 5, 2024 An utterly conventional domestic drama whose focus feels too narrow to be saying much about the country today. Go to Full Review The Quiet Son (2024) 55% - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 3, 2024 While we can admire his ambition to create what the French might call a ‘film-testament’, the final result is less the sparkling apotheosis of a lifetime of filmmaking than a work that feels more like a greatest-hits album. Go to Full Review Finalement (2024) - - - -

Boyd van Hoeij Screen International Sep 3, 2024 Beautifully shot, played by a mix of professional actors and locals and spoken mostly in dialect, Vermiglio feels both authentic and almost restrained to a fault. Yet there’s no denying the filmmaking prowess of Delpero. Go to Full Review Vermiglio (2024) 93% - -

Boyd van Hoeij The Film Verdict Dec 8, 2023 The first feature from Japanese female director Chie Hayakawa seethes with violence under its soft-spoken exterior. Go to Full Review Plan 75 (2022) 95% 89%

Boyd van Hoeij The Film Verdict May 25, 2022 The Dardenne-brothers formula contains no more surprises and their latest film confirms both the veracity of that statement and provides more proof that the formula is still pretty effective. Go to Full Review Tori and Lokita (2022) 87% 72%