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No One Knows What They’re Doing in Holland
This small-town thriller has an underwhelming twist, a shaky grasp of tone, and a cast that flounders to figure out what they’re supposed to be up to.
Director Mimi Cave shoots the place like it’s a highly specialized area of Epcot Center, a recreation of a Dutch-themed midwestern community whose residents are unaware they’re in a theme park. And as Dave Delgado, the shop teacher who becomes Nancy’s confidant, Gael García Bernal tries to echo Kidman’s bubbly innocence, though he’s also tasked with flare-ups of ugliness that make this approach jarring. Holland ’s screenplay, which was written by Manhunt co-creator Andrew Sodroski, was one of the Blacklist projects that rattled around for years, almost getting made (Errol Morris was originally attached to direct).
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