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‘Holland’ Review: A Kitschy Dutch-Themed Midwestern Town Plays Backdrop to a Twisty Mystery
Nicole Kidman plays a working mom content with life in a hyperbolically all-American town, until she starts to suspect her husband of keeping secrets.
A conscientious (if slightly patronizing) partner and respected community optometrist, the man spends most of his free time tinkering with his model railroad, a hobby he enthusiastically shares with their adolescent son Harry (Jude Hill, the child star of Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” presented here like an escapee from Village of the Damned). Truth be told, she’s developed extramarital feelings for Dave (Gael García Bernal), the sympathetic shop teacher at the high school where she works, which means this could all be an elaborate case of projection: Nancy wants to cheat, so she manufactures a scenario where Fred’s being unfaithful to justify her own indiscretions. The “Succession” star brings a disconcerting Kevin Spacey-like energy to his performance, which reinforces the connection some might detect between “Holland” and 1999’s “American Beauty” — another movie about the toxic black mold that thrives just beneath the veneer of suburban perfection.
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