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BOYD VAN HOEIJ

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Biography: Boyd is the editor of european-films.net, a website about recent and upcoming European films, and a freelance arts and film writer based in Europe. He also contributes festival reviews to US trade paper Variety and to Variety Asia. Further credits include: kamera.co.uk, the website venice-days.com of the Venice Film Festival, Winq Magazine, Expreszo, Dim Sum Magazine, Cannes Market News and MovieScope. Boyd is also the correspondent for the Netherlands and Luxembourg for the European film portal cineuropa.org and the film critic for the Luxembourg monthly Rendez-Vous. Fluent in several languages, his articles have appeared in English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Estonian and Chinese. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society. Boyd is always on the look-out for new writing assignments, so drop him a line if you are a good --and possibly, rich-- editor in search of a film writer and have an interesting project that needs writing now.

Favorites: If I told you that, I'd be out of work.

Publications: bibloi.com, Cineuropa, european-films.net, Kamera.co.uk, Variety

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 573
Total QuickRatings: 36

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Rotten	N/A	The Silent Army (2008)	" Scribe-helmer Jean van de Velde puts his considerable filmmaking talent at the mercy of a screenplay riddled with cliches and improbabilities." — Variety Posted Oct 3, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 83%	[Rec] 2 (2009)	" A sequel to the Spanish cult hit that offers an explanation for something that was far more effective when left largely unexplained." — Variety Posted Sep 3, 2009
Fresh	N/A	In the Beginning (2009)	" True story of a stretch of asphalt rolled out by formerly jobless road workers in northern France, under the command of an impostor, blends social critique, character drama and crime into one smooth, good-looking package." — Variety Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Misfortunates (2009)	" Calling the Strobbe clan a working-class family would imply that some of its members worked (or had class), but none of the lowlife protags do in the visually robust and often hilarious Flemish tragicomedy The Misfortunates." — Variety Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 89%	O'Horten (2009)	" *The decidedly Nordic -- though not at all glacial -- O'Horten* is a mixture of sweetness and deadpan that proves the Kaurism�ki/Andersson school of filmmaking still has new delights in store.*" — european-films.net* Posted Aug 16, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	The Country Teacher (2009)	" This small, contemporary Czech marvel showcases two bright talents and a sentiment not seen often enough on screen nowadays: sincerity." — european-films.net Posted Aug 14, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Nem Vagyok a Bar�tod (2009)	" Cynical, love-themed criss-crosser set in Budapest features plenty of jiggly vid footage but the improvised characters played by nonpro actors feel so arbitrary it's hard to care about any of them." — Variety Posted Jul 23, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Ricky (2009)	" Because Ozon doesn't develop his characters once Ricky shows his true nature, the movie's slightly overcooked working-class realism quickly morphs into a grotesque story of a mutant baby. The film's two halves feel almost mutually exclusive." — Variety Posted Jun 8, 2009
Rotten	N/A	The City of Your Final Destination (2008)	" Languid, multi-accented adaptation of the contempo novel by Peter Cameron suffers from an unfocused screenplay and direction." — Variety Posted Jun 8, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Cherrybomb (2009)	" *Dare bests truth at each turn in Cherrybomb, a zippy if over-schematic teen pic from tyro helmers Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn." — Variety* Posted May 4, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Mill�nium - Le Film (2009)	" Gives a relatively faithful idea of the novel's ingenious construction but only glimpses of its scathing portrait of Sweden as a corrupt, bankrupt and misogynistic society." — Variety Posted May 4, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Bellamy (2009)	" Upscale talkfest, which delights in its witty banter and sly references, could be helmer's most commercial work in quite some time, especially if the pic is tightened by a good 10 minutes." — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Milk of Sorrow (2009)	" Peruvian realities and Llosa's light magical realism mesh to create a vivid picture of a society and its problems." — Variety Posted Feb 19, 2009
Rotten	N/A	The Countess (2009)	" Wacky tale of a woman who killed virgins for their blood to keep her skin wrinkle-free might get some traction in Central Europe, where it is set, but won't make it past the Europudding label elsewhere." — Variety Posted Feb 11, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Boogie (2008)	" *Three 30-somethings relive their gloriously lurid college days for one night only in Radu Muntean's Boogie, a restrained and honest look at the male midlife crisis in an embryonic state." — european-films.net* Posted Jan 20, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Buddenbrooks (2008)	" Big-name German cast is aces, but helmer Heinrich Breloer struggles to lift his big-budget sudser to the level of epic tragedy." — Variety Posted Jan 20, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Loft (2008)	" A tightly drawn, atmospheric thriller that has one false bottom too many to qualify as great." — Variety Posted Jan 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	The Wedding Song (2009)	" A bold, very carnal take on adolescent female bonding in a setting not often portrayed onscreen. Small but ambitious movie should be able to sing its way into fests and arthouses." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Bride Flight (2008)	" *As in Twin Sisters, a veneer of nostalgia, plus excellent lensing and acting, make the soap-opera plot play on the bigscreen." — Variety* Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rotten	N/A	The Butterfly Tattoo (2008)	" Helmer Phil Hawkins and young thesps get the awkward first moments of infatuation just right, but the screenplay's limping second half may hamper theatrical prospects." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Opium War (2008)	" As in Osama, the Afghan writer-helmer again uses a non-pro cast, but the result is stifled by poorly written English dialogue and a failure to reconcile apparent realism with occasional detours into absurdist tragicomedy." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rotten	N/A	And a Warm Heart (2008)	" A surprisingly simplistic morality tale that offers few laughs and even less involving drama." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Los (2008)	" Though it occasionally skirts TV territory, pic remains involving, thanks to an ace performance from legit actor Pepijn Caudron and sumptuous widescreen lensing." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Lol (2009)	" Jaw-droppingly handsome cast, laugh-out-loud moments aplenty and a finely sketched, more serious undertow should make this third feature by Gallic helmer Lisa Azuelos a big hit in Gaul." — Variety Posted Dec 8, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 86%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations." — Variety Posted Sep 29, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Un Secret (2008)	" Makes for compelling viewing despite many familiar elements." — european-films.net Posted Sep 6, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Bahrtalo! (2008)	" Pic is refreshingly honest in its warts-and-all portrayal of friendship, though its lack of narrative hooks and genuine comedic sparks will make this a hard sell anywhere." — Variety Posted Aug 25, 2008
Rotten	N/A	R(evolution) (2008)	" Portrays the culture of those seeking knowledge in recreational drugs and around bonfires on palm-lined beaches with a seriousness the subject doesn't deserve." — Variety Posted Aug 25, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Bathory (2008)	" More of a cinematic curiosity than true blockbuster material, despite its scale." — Variety Posted Aug 20, 2008
N/A	N/A	Saturno Contro (2007)	" interview: director Ferzan Ozpetek on Saturno contro" — european-films.net INTERVIEW Posted Aug 20, 2008
Fresh	N/A	The Friend (2008)	" A subtle portrait of loss and personal growth." — Variety Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Valu (2008)	" Screenplay struggles to develop its more serious themes, but pic's plentiful laughs and gorgeous lensing make it an enjoyable experience overall." — Variety Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Une Chanson dans la T�te (2008)	" *Though on the surface Habibi* is, indeed, a full-blown, crowd-pleasing melodrama, there's also a more thoughtful subtext below its glossy exterior.*" — Variety* Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Karamazovi (2008)	" The phenomenal legit performances are alone worth the price of admission, but a side story involving the troupe at a festival in Poland adds extra weight and underlines the timelessness of Dostoyevsky's themes." — Variety Posted Aug 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 74%	A Girl Cut in Two (2008)	" Snappy timing, focused writing and pitch-perfect acting." — european-films.net Posted Aug 11, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Ca$h (2008)	" *Feels more like a cheap hypermarch�* knock-off with a fancily designed label than the real deal.*" — european-films.net* Posted Jul 2, 2008
Rotten	N/A	Mataharis (2007)	" Having three different protagonists is perhaps too much, as Bollain and Rodr�guez' screenplay only succeeds in reducing each woman's story to its soap-opera essentials." — european-films.net Posted Jun 30, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Moscow, Belgium (2008)	" *Crossover hits from Flanders are rare and Flemish working-class romantic comedies even less so, but van Rompaey may have actually made both when he made Aanrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium)." — european-films.net* Posted Jun 25, 2008
Rotten	Fresh 75%	The Last Mistress (2008)	" *French director and provocatrice extraordinaire* Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic.*" — european-films.net* Posted Jun 25, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Tulpan (2008)	" The details of the exotic trappings on display may be relatively new but the rites-of-passage story is as old as civilisation itself in Tulpan, a timeless and endearing coming-of-age tale for the Story of the Weeping Camel crowd." — european-films.net Posted Jun 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Il Divo (2009)	" The uncrowned king of post-war Italian politics, Giulio Andreotti, might be the subject of Paolo Sorrentino's nominal biopic Il Divo, but it is as an incisive portrait of Italian politics in general that it impresses." — european-films.net Posted Jun 24, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 96%	Gomorra (2008)	" The Neapolitan mafia, known as the Camorra, gets the Syriana treatment in Matteo Garrone's Gomorra (Gomorrah), one of the most incisive organised-crime films to emerge from any country since the 1970s." — european-films.net Posted Jun 23, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 97%	The Class (2008)	" *Again an austere but acutely observed drama with a quasi-documentary style, Entre les murs (The Class)* impresses with its veracious tone and nuanced characterisations.*" — european-films.net* Posted Jun 19, 2008
N/A	N/A	Ma Salama Jamil (2008)	" *"It is the personal stories that are interesting" - an interview with Ma salama Jamil* director Omar Shargawi.*" — Cineuropa* INTERVIEW Posted Jun 9, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 71%	Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (2008)	" A winner. Puts its tale of a southern postal worker hoping for a transfer to the C�te d'Azur through the very effective reverse psychology wringer when he ends up in the dreaded north instead - but discovers he loves it." — european-films.net Posted Apr 25, 2008
Fresh	N/A	L...Kot Ljubezen (2008)	" A willingly schizoid portrait of a generation growing up on a continent where distances count for nothing but some gaps are still impossible to close." — european-films.net Posted Apr 9, 2008
N/A	Fresh 80%	Water Lilies (2007)	" interview: director Celine Sciamma on her teenage sexuality drama Naissance des pieuvres (Water Lilies)" — european-films.net INTERVIEW Posted Apr 8, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 69%	Paris (2009)	" After two continent-wide trips and a plunge into the French capital's underworld, French director C�dric Klapisch stays close to home and well above the ground for Paris, his valentine to the City of Lights." — european-films.net Posted Mar 31, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 94%	Revanche (2009)	" *A meandering first half gives way to a spectacular psychological portrait of the deafening silence of pain and loneliness in Austrian writer-director G�tz Spielmann's Revanche." — european-films.net* Posted Mar 31, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 61%	Chiko (2008)	" A gentle character sketch gradually makes way for a high-energy tale of loyalty and betrayal that is perhaps rife with clich�s but works because Yildirim has established his characters properly." — european-films.net Posted Mar 24, 2008

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