‘Islands’ Review: Sam Riley Experiences ‘L’Avventura’ of a Lifetime in Soul-Searching European Thriller
The appearance of a woman from his past and the subsequent disappearance of her husband force a beach-bum tennis coach to ...
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‘Islands’ Review: Sam Riley and Stacy Martin in a Sun-Soaked Noir That Lets Its Tension Slacken in the Closing Stretch
Set around a luxury hotel in the Canary Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster’s drama follows a Brit tennis coach whose inertia is shaken ...
Islands, Berlin Film Festival review: Sam Riley’s Highsmithian holiday mystery has a wicked backhand
Islands is a holiday mystery that wrong-foots us with clever backhand. The twists are contingent on what characters assume, ...
‘Islands’ Review: A Gripping Tennis Noir That Feels Like ‘Challengers’ by Way of Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith meets Challengers in a film about a Canary Islands resort tennis pro who gets involved in the ...
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‘Islands’ Review: Sam Riley and Stacy Martin in a Sun-Soaked Noir That Lets Its Tension Slacken in the Closing Stretch
By David Rooney Chief Film Critic German director Jan-Ole Gerster ... It’s carried by compelling performances from Riley and Stacy Martin, by its atmospheric setting and by the reliable ...
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Islands, Berlin Film Festival review: Sam Riley’s Highsmithian holiday mystery has a wicked backhand
The main character’s life of Riley here – Sam’s, playing Tom – is so believable ... but she gains confidence as the film goes on. Farthing makes an immediately unhappy impression and ...
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‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
The lid is barely clamped down on the always-sunny volcanic Canary Island, as a locally-based tennis pro played by Sam Riley ...
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‘Islands’ Review: Sam Riley and Stacy Martin in a Sun-Soaked Noir That Lets Its Tension Slacken in the Closing Stretch
The thought that Sam Riley’s Tom might turn out to be Fred ... German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s first English-language film remains absorbing and has a low-key but effective payoff.
‘Islands’ Review: There’s Trouble In Paradise In Jan-Ole Gerster’s Slow-Burn Drama – Berlin Film Festival
Soon after, Jan-Ole Gerster’s slow-burn drama ignites when a watchful new hotel guest, Anne ( Stacy Martin ), arrives wanting tennis lessons for her 7-year-old. But she seems to yearn for something ...