Boyd van Hoeij

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For 336 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Boyd van Hoeij's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Call Me by Your Name
Lowest review score: 0 Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 205 out of 336
  2. Mixed: 122 out of 336
  3. Negative: 9 out of 336
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Last One for the Road
    As the story travels from bittersweet to comic and back again, 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, but hopeful that one last drink might enable things to be seen in a more positive light.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Son of Joseph
    The constant combination of highbrow and lowbrow elements is undeniably French but also very effective.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Force Majeure
    This is another solid and provocative feature from Ostlund.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Giant Little Ones
    This is a confidently shot and beautifully acted story that manages to transcend quite a few — if clearly not all — of the coming-of-age genre’s cliches by delving into how the Millennial generation experiences sexuality, ostracism and growing up and how they try to relate to their parents and peers.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Son of Saul
    Utterly uneasy to watch but strikingly and confidently assembled, the film is a powerful aural and visual experience that doesn’t quite manage to sustain itself over the course of its running time, but is a remarkable — and remarkably intense — experience nonetheless.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Ground Beneath My Feet
    This is at once an accessible art house drama about Lola’s emotionally frayed sisterly and amorous ties and a clinically observed portrait of a 21st-century woman trying to stay afloat in a ruthlessly profit-oriented economy where feelings are the enemy of efficiency.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Drug War
    A nail-biter that’s actually quite light on action but so well-scripted and shot, it’s nonetheless edge-of-your-seat material.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Breathe
    Though the story has undergone quite a few changes, what’s intact is the novel’s grittiness and emotional honesty, which more than compensates for the occasional coming-of-age cliche.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Insult
    A highly political movie that's also a personal story of two men going head-to-head while the women around them are left to pick up the pieces, this gorgeously shot and classily acted feature might be a reel too long but is nonetheless a fascinating piece of work.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Theeb
    Though the pint-sized protagonist is never far out of sight, the film’s vision is anything but limited, as various encounters in the desert conjure a vivid picture of a world that has remained unchanged for centuries but that is quickly coming undone.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Pause
    Though the subject is a largely familiar one, this is a work of considerable tonal complexity, as it stirs moments of pitch-black humor and short and violent reveries into an otherwise austerely told tale of spousal strife that wants to smash the patriarchy with feats of cinematic derring-do.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    A mostly slick, entertaining and emotionally involving recombination of fresh and familiar elements.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Eyes of My Mother
    The Eyes of My Mother is both strange and strangely enthralling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Glassland
    Before anyone has even said anything, the economy of Barrett as a storyteller is abundantly clear.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    House of Cardin
    This is a deliciously entertaining and perceptive take on Cardin’s life and how he shaped both the silhouette of fashion and branding in the fashion world and beyond.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    All Is Well
    As the story grows increasingly bleak, it feels not only increasingly depressing but also more miserably authentic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Miss Hokusai
    If some anime films also feature more painterly details in the backdrops, especially when depicting nature, what feels new here is the attention to details such as the glow of light sources, including candles and lanterns, that are warmer and more realistically detailed than usual.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Guidelines
    Caissy and his editor, Mathieu Bouchard-Malo, manage to construct something that acquires a cumulative force that speaks compellingly and much more generally about the intersection of youth, education and personal morality than the specific cases of these often nameless, zit-sprinkled pieces of work.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Caniba
    Rather than sensationalizing their subject, Paravel and Castaing-Taylor never forget that Issei, while clearly troubled or ill or both, is still a human being, too. It is a testament to the talent of the directors, who also shot and edited the film, that such a complex moral stance rises organically from their material.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Way He Looks
    Ribeiro’s screenplay, which is marbled with moments of humor as well as emotion, feels extremely well-tuned into the conflicted emotional lives of his adolescent characters, who often retreat into the safety of their childhood comfort zone after every exciting, but also scary, excursion into the adult unknown.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Love Is Strange
    This is a sprawling yet intimate narrative, constructed almost entirely of in-between moments rather than the big turning points and tragedies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Abuse of Weakness
    Like in all of the director’s work, psychologically reductive readings of the characters are absent, though intriguing performances give audiences a way into the material.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Mrs. Hyde
    Eccentric and occasionally hilarious, this is yet another uniquely Bozonian creation, which this time explores the transmission of ideas between teachers and students and the tricky notion that our good side might not necessarily be our best side after all.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    It's All So Quiet
    The character development here is understated but beautifully laid bare by a quartet of top actors.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    I Called Him Morgan
    An intriguing exposé of a gripping story.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    [Waititi's] nimble adaptation here combines solid writing with an entire bag of filmmaking tricks that includes visual gags, unexpected cuts and quick montage sequences to score laughs from the get-go. He also cleverly exploits who these people are to get the audience in stitches.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Last Viking
    With The Last Viking, Danish star, screenwriter and occasional director Anders Thomas Jensen (Adam’s Apples, Riders of Justice) brings another one of his blackly comic, absurdly violent tales to the screen with enviable ease.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    One Week and a Day
    The strength of Asaph Polonsky’s debut feature, One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom), is that it’s actually a bittersweet comedy-drama in which the pain is as real as the frequent chuckles.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    The Academy of Muses
    A low-fi but beguiling mixture of intellectual discourse and emotional rollercoaster from Spanish maestro José Luis Guerin.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Boyd van Hoeij
    Wetlands
    What makes the film so accessible despite its controversial subject matter is Wnendt’s total command of tone, which is never vulgar or intentionally out to shock.
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