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Boyd van Hoeij

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Boyd van Hoeij is a freelance film writer based in Paris and Luxembourg. As a critic, he has covered the main film festivals (Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice...) and the major European releases for industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter since 2013. Before that, he was a contributing critic at Variety. Boyd is also the film editor of Winq magazine (Netherlands) and a regular contributor to Indiewire (U.S.) and Filmkrant (Netherlands). His book 10/10, about contemporary Francophone Belgian cinema, came out in September 2010. He's taught film criticism short courses and dissected classic movies frame-by-frame across the globe, including in such far-flung places as Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Portugal, Ireland and Palm Springs, Calif. He's been a panelist or moderator at festivals including Berlin, Cannes and Sydney and served on the Cannes Critics' Week jury in 2015.

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Reviews

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Lost Land (2025) EDIT “Fujimoto, who also wrote the screenplay and edits, struggles to find a consistent tone that can accommodate both these harsh realities while ensuring his protagonists are not put directly in harm’s way. ” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Last One for the Road (2025) EDIT “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.” – Screen International Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Whitetail (2025) 90% EDIT “O’Keeffe really is Leopold’s secret weapon here, as she delivers a complex and layered performance of an angry, determined woman in an unusual predicament. ” – Screen International Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Barrio Triste (2025) EDIT “What sounds like a potentially interesting -- if not particularly original -- conceit yields results that are more often boring or baffling than actually insightful or at least intriguing. ” – Screen International Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 94% EDIT “Working like a well-oiled machine, despite the occasional longueur, this is the kind of film that mostly goes in the [direction] you’re expecting but it’s all so well done.” – Screen International Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Calle Málaga (2025) 94% EDIT “A bright, light confection about resilience and joie de vivre into old(er) age that’s as predictable as it is disposable.” – Screen International Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Take It or Leave It (2018) EDIT “A realistically told drama about one blue-collar man's struggle with keeping his head above water as he has to try and juggle life's curveballs.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Militantropos (2025) 80% EDIT “The camera and soundwork is often striking and the result absorbing, though this kind of relentlessly downbeat work, however timely, will probably see more big-screen action at festivals than in commercial theatres.” – Screen International May 21, 2025 Full Review Imago (2025) EDIT “[Imago] takes a straightforward approach, but should connect with audiences looking for moving human stories.” – Screen International May 21, 2025 Full Review I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) 79% EDIT “Pinho’s interest in neo-colonial issues is tackled with a lucid gaze and appropriate room for local perspectives.” – Screen International May 18, 2025 Full Review Night Stage (2025) EDIT “Though the screenplay is occassionally a bit schematic, Night Stage is a sexy drama with thematic smarts to match.” – Screen International Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Ari (2025) EDIT “There might be a lot of dialogue, but looks, silences, hesitations and facial expressions are often just as telling, if not more so. ” – Screen International Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 98% EDIT “It looks appropriately poppy and appealing and, while there are a few longueurs, on the whole Lesbian Space Princess zips by, while delivering quite a few chuckles along the way.” – Screen International Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% EDIT “The resulting gymnastic split is occasionally a little uncomfortable, but also charming in an immediate, earthy way. ” – Screen International Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Edge of Night (2024) EDIT “The family drama is fascinating, especially because Süer, who also wrote the screenplay, deftly uses often minimalistic dialogue to explore the crevices and contradictions of the men’s opposing viewpoints. ” – Screen International Sep 30, 2024 Full Review The Quiet Son (2024) 55% EDIT “An utterly conventional domestic drama whose focus feels too narrow to be saying much about the country today. ” – Screen International Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Finalement (2024) EDIT “While we can admire his ambition to create what the French might call a ‘film-testament’, the final result is less the sparkling apotheosis of a lifetime of filmmaking than a work that feels more like a greatest-hits album.” – Screen International Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Vermiglio (2024) 93% EDIT “Beautifully shot, played by a mix of professional actors and locals and spoken mostly in dialect, Vermiglio feels both authentic and almost restrained to a fault. Yet there’s no denying the filmmaking prowess of Delpero.” – Screen International Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Plan 75 (2022) 95% EDIT “The first feature from Japanese female director Chie Hayakawa seethes with violence under its soft-spoken exterior.” – The Film Verdict Dec 8, 2023 Full Review Tori and Lokita (2022) 87% EDIT “The Dardenne-brothers formula contains no more surprises and their latest film confirms both the veracity of that statement and provides more proof that the formula is still pretty effective. ” – The Film Verdict May 25, 2022 Full Review Brother and Sister (2022) 60% EDIT “A densely layered work full of allusions and themes including fame, jealousy and privacy but the frustratingly oblique storytelling keeps audiences removed from the characters and their often histrionic behaviour. ” – The Film Verdict May 21, 2022 Full Review The Night of the 12th (2022) 94% EDIT “A moody and fascinating piece of work.” – The Film Verdict May 20, 2022 Full Review The Eight Mountains (2022) 91% EDIT “A film that, at almost 150 minutes, certainly takes too long to get going but that, in its final act, reaches some very satisfying emotional payoffs. ” – The Film Verdict May 19, 2022 Full Review Final Cut (2022) 71% EDIT “This zombie comedy delivers the laughs, if not quite something substantial.” – The Film Verdict May 18, 2022 Full Review Olga (2021) 92% EDIT “A soberly staged but intense drama. (...) Budiashkina impresses as a gymnast and as the gloomy adolescent who tries so hard to be an athlete that she often forgets to simply be a teenager who doesn't need to have all the answers all the time.” – The Film Verdict Oct 25, 2021 Full Review
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