Film Review – Holland (2025)

Nicole Kidman certainly loves to play repressed women, preferably sexually so. “Holland” is her third role in less than a year (following “Babygirl” and “A Family Affair”) where she portrays a character being unlocked by a special, forbidden partner, responding to the thrill of danger and exposure to previously unrealized pleasures. It’s a bit of a career rut for the actress, but she remains lively and exploratory in the films, including “Holland,” which provides Kidman with a broader personality to play, as screenwriter Andrew Sodroski looks to the “Fargo” universe to inspire a tale of suspicion and lust, trying to blend exaggeration with suburban horrors. Director Mimi Cave (who impressed with 2022’s “Fresh”) offers style, but not much substance, struggling to keep a leaden story afloat, unable to make something exciting out of the usual in thriller cinema. The picture has moments of passably interesting oddity, but the overall offering is slack, and the ending is completely unsatisfying. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com