SummaryNancy Vandergroot (Nicole Kidman) is a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her friendly colleague (Gael García Bernal) become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their live... Read More
Directed By:Mimi Cave
Written By:Andrew Sodroski
Holland
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42
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70% Mixed
14 Reviews
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25% Negative
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Mar 11, 2025
70
Cave's assured direction creates a sickly sweet, dreamy world, and though its story sometimes lacks the dynamism it needs to fully connect, Kidman, unsurprisingly, carries the film over the finish line.
Mar 11, 2025
60
Holland blossoms in the space where all-American domestic fantasy ends and nightmares begin, but never quite delivers on its premise, if only because the resolution feels so familiar.
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9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Apr 16, 2025
6
You don’t watch Holland, you survive it. If you bail before the hour mark, I don’t blame you. The beginning dares you to quit. It’s slow, familiar, a polite handshake with an edge of condescension. There's something absurd in how sincere it remains. At one point, a character watches an old film on TV and remembers something crucial. At another, a misunderstanding leads to a chain of events so wildly implausible it loops back into brilliance. It starts quiet, familiar, almost mockable. You think you’re watching a 90s thriller dug up and reheated. But then the bones crack. Then the wallpaper peels. And by the time you realize something’s wrong, the film is already inside your bloodstream, rewiring your expectations scene by scene like it’s assembling a new genre from spare parts. What begins as a familiar, almost groan-worthy exercise in suburban paranoia mutates into something unclassifiable—feral, shape-shifting, built from genre bones that have been boiled down into a narcotic broth. Set in a nostalgically pre-digital Midwest town that cosplays as Europe—Holland, Michigan pretending to be Holland, Netherlands—the movie wears the lace curtain of a '90s suspicion drama. It’s a town in costume, a performance of civility and cleanliness. The film takes place in that dead space before constant connectivity, when Blockbuster was still sacred and you couldn’t ask the internet what your spouse was thinking. And it uses that temporal gap to build something strangely timeless and deeply uncanny. Nicole Kidman plays Nancy, a woman who begins to suspect her soft-spoken husband Fred of hiding something. Classic setup. We know this one. Or at least, we think we do. But suspicion is just the entry drug. What Holland really wants to talk about is reputation—how it calcifies, how it imprisons, how it warps the way people love and lie. Characters don’t just make choices; they calculate optics. Who will know? What will they think? And if no one ever finds out, does it even matter? Beneath its shifting tones and layered aesthetics, Holland is obsessed with image. Every scene is wrapped in the artificial warmth of a place terrified of scandal. There's a point when the real threat isn't violence or betrayal, but the idea that someone might talk. Gossip becomes theology. Secrets become currency. And even when something unthinkable happens, the question remains: how will it look? Holland doesn’t twist—it molts. Every twenty minutes, it discards another skin. It starts like a polite thriller, then curdles into dark comedy, then slithers into eroticism, unease, absurdity. It forgets what kind of film it’s supposed to be and becomes something... else. Something with more teeth than polish. A shape-shifting suburban nightmare that winks while tightening the noose. It becomes funny, then tragic, then horrifying. And always, always: artificial. As if the town itself were a soundstage for secrets too awful to say aloud. Without giving away a single secret, I’ll say this: Holland doesn’t just unravel—it cannibalizes. It feeds on the genres it borrows from and leaves you with something jagged and unplaceable. It's not tidy. It's not easy. And it's not for everyone. It takes its time like it’s got nowhere to be. It demands more patience than most viewers are willing to give. It doesn’t ask for your attention—it tests it. But if you survive, you might find something strange and stained and cracked inside yourself staring back through the screen.
May 7, 2025
5
Holland chega ao Prime Video carregando expectativas acima da média para um título original de catálogo, especialmente por reunir nomes como Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen e Gael García Bernal, além de carregar uma história que já circulava há mais de uma década pela indústria. O roteiro assinado por Andrew Sodroski integrou a prestigiada Black List em 2013 — uma seleção anual dos melhores roteiros ainda não produzidos de Hollywood — o que já bastava para colocar o projeto no radar de cinéfilos atentos. Após anos de engavetamento e tentativas frustradas de produção, que chegaram a envolver nomes como Naomi Ackie e Bryan Cranston, a Amazon finalmente tirou o projeto do papel, confiando a direção a Mimi Cave, que havia feito barulho com o elogiado "Fresh". Aqui, ela volta a ocupar a cadeira de direção com uma produção que, no papel, tinha tudo para dar certo.E por um momento, parece mesmo que dará. O filme inicia de forma intrigante, com uma atmosfera envolvente e promissora, que instiga o público a desvendar o que há por trás da fachada da família Vandergroot. A trama sugere um thriller psicológico ancorado em segredos, aparências e inquietações escondidas sob a superfície de uma vida aparentemente perfeita. Contudo, conforme o enredo avança, o que era um mistério instigante rapidamente se transforma em uma narrativa frouxa, mal amarrada e com um desenvolvimento que decepciona à medida que caminha para a revelação final. O grande problema de Holland está justamente no coração da história: o mistério que o sustenta se esvazia progressivamente, tornando-se um artifício que serve apenas como pano de fundo para focar no desenvolvimento dos personagens Nancy e Dave — sem que esse desenvolvimento, por sua vez, tenha força suficiente para sustentar o filme.Quando a verdade finalmente vem à tona, o impacto é quase nulo. O que poderia ser uma reviravolta potente se revela um anticlímax, entregue de forma tão fácil e previsível que beira o desrespeito com o próprio público. Há uma sensação clara de frustração por parte do espectador, que se vê embarcando em uma jornada repleta de pistas falsas, apenas para perceber que todas essas pistas eram irrelevantes. O filme cria um clima de tensão que sugere complexidade e profundidade, mas que, no fim das contas, abandona tudo isso para entregar um desfecho que parece ter sido colado de outra história — uma menos inspirada.Apesar dos tropeços do roteiro, há elementos que merecem destaque. Nicole Kidman mais uma vez demonstra sua habilidade de transformar personagens aparentemente rasos em figuras com alguma densidade emocional. Sua Nancy é o retrato da mulher que vive a ilusão da família perfeita, mas que anseia por algo que a tire do marasmo cotidiano. Kidman segura o filme enquanto pode, com uma atuação sólida que tenta, sem sucesso, compensar as falhas narrativas. A condução de Mimi Cave também demonstra competência: mesmo com um material frágil nas mãos, ela consegue imprimir alguma personalidade ao longa. Isso se deve, em parte, ao ótimo trabalho de fotografia de Pawel Pogorzelski (de “Midsommar” e “Hereditário”), que transforma o visual de "Holland" em algo esteticamente rico, usando as paletas de cores para transmitir sensações e atmosferas distintas ao longo da trama. A trilha sonora de Alex Somers, por sua vez, funciona como um complemento eficaz, adicionando uma camada de inquietação e lirismo ao filme.Infelizmente, nem a técnica impecável, nem o elenco talentoso, nem a direção segura são capazes de salvar "Holland" de seu maior inimigo: o roteiro. Em um filme que tenta transitar entre o suspense, o drama familiar e até a comédia sutil, a falta de coesão tonal prejudica demais a experiência. A sensação é de estar diante de três filmes diferentes que nunca se fundem de maneira orgânica. A oscilação entre gêneros se mostra artificial, quebrando o envolvimento emocional com as cenas e dificultando qualquer conexão mais profunda com os personagens. O resultado é um filme que, apesar de ter tudo para ser memorável, acaba sendo **** fim, "Holland" é mais um exemplo claro de como um roteiro fraco pode minar até as produções mais promissoras. Um elenco talentoso, uma diretora em ascensão e uma equipe técnica competente não conseguem impedir que o filme afunde sob o peso de uma narrativa que começa bem, mas se perde completamente no meio do caminho. Um desperdício de potencial que transforma uma ideia intrigante em um produto frustrantemente medíocre.
Mar 27, 2025
50
The film’s unusual backdrop, unresolved subplots and dream-sequence fakeouts are ultimately all distractions from a story that doesn’t make much sense.
Mar 11, 2025
50
Holland boasts striking advancements in the director’s style and committed performances from Kidman, Macfadyen and Bernal, but these qualities can’t quite save a narrative fundamentally confused about its purpose.
Mar 17, 2025
40
It's evident Cave tried her best to steer the ship, but the story feels aimless, and moments after things get interesting, Holland cuts to credits, leaving you equally puzzled and burned out.
Mar 12, 2025
38
The discomfort in watching Holland is not knowing if something is intended or, like the main character, you’re looking for things that aren’t there.
Mar 24, 2025
25
Cave, who gained notice with much-lauded Hulu feminist horror film “Fresh” (2022), is too busy condescending to her characters to be invested in what happens to them.
Apr 24, 2025
5
A stale, small town thriller that plays it straight down the middle for its duration.
Mar 28, 2025
5
Nicole Kidman & Matthew Macfadyen play a couple who seem to have an ideal family life in the Dutch-themed Michigan town. As expected, their relationship’s underlying unease develops into much more. One of the complications involves her fellow teacher (Gael García Bernal), but any more information will spoil the plot. Kidman centers the movie with her suspicious, flighty wife, while Macfadyen embodies the supportive husband/father. Mimi Cave, who also directed “Fresh," starts with the “normal” and subverts it. She takes her time unfolding the story, which does have elements of predictability (I guessed the twist pretty early on). The production design must be noted: Their home is crammed with kitschy details in a nod to the culture of the Midwestern town. The music also has strong elements of 50s melodrama merged with Hitchcock scores. The slow-burn disruption of a seemingly-happy world has been done before with better writing, but this film benefits from the performances of Kidman and Bernal and is sufficiently involving. The irony: Even though Holland is a real Michigan town, most of this (including the Tulip Time festival) was actually shot in Tennessee, which is where Kidman lives.
Jul 8, 2025
4
Holland boasts a strong central performance from Nicole Kidman and an evocative atmosphere, but its potential is quickly squandered by a muddled script, inconsistent pacing, and a third act that leans too far into implausibility. Stylish yet emotionally hollow, the film struggles to balance its psychological intrigue with coherent storytelling, ultimately leaving its themes underdeveloped and its mystery unsatisfying.
Mar 31, 2025
4
Holland é o nome do vilarejo quase idílico, onde a família perfeita vai vivendo o american way of life até tudo desmoronar. O roteiro não é nem um pouco sutil, e se a saída pelo adultério já era clichê, a opção por algo mais pesado só veio reforçar o quanto o filme se apóia em estereótipos, ainda que seja em tom crítico, mas no final acaba sendo ele próprio produto do que pretendera criticar. Nem dá para levar a sério isso aqui, por mais boas intenções que o longa tenha.
Mar 31, 2025
1
A major contender for worst film of the year. It's hard to believe that the talents of Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, and Matthew Macfadyen could be wasted in this way. A film about a marital mystery that slowly turns into a cheap soap opera that clumsily attempts to construct a commentary on the secret lives we yearn for and the psychological control men exert over women at home. Even worse than "Don't Worry, Darling." Badly acted, badly directed, and badly written.
Production Company:
- 42
- Amazon Studios
- Big Indie Pictures
- Blossom Films
- Churchill Films
- United Artists
Release Date:Mar 27, 2025
Duration:1 h 48 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Some things only look perfect.
Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination





























