The gauzy cinematography, languid pacing and glossy resort backdrop somehow add to the overall distress and the vice-like grip of the drama.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2019

Holiday makes the worlds of Michael Haneke look cuddly and inviting, the work of Ulrich Seidl seem positively jolly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2019

Some metaphors are a little obvious but still, by the end you feel you know this waif through and through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2019

An icily accomplished drama about sexual violence, toxic masculinity and toxic femininity, in a pretty familiar Euro-hardcore style not dissimilar to the manner of shock veterans such as Ulrich Seidl or Gaspar Noé.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2019

A very fine debut, if a little one-note.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2019

It's hard to tell whether [Eklof] intends to communicate something genuine about the human condition, or just shovel hostility at her audience.

| Feb 21, 2019

"Holiday" refuses to cast judgment on its protagonist with its stark cinematography and long takes, letting lead Victoria Carmen Sonne's subtle performance shine in this crime drama about imbalances of power.

| Feb 7, 2019

[Eklöf] has the provocateur's gift for images that needle, nettle and stick, well before their message locks firmly into place.

| Jan 31, 2018

For a directorial vision that wants to challenge what we do and don't see, Eklof also adds complications to trauma that make Holiday a searing character study.

| Jan 27, 2018

Sascha is a complex character whose actions don't adhere to traditional story beats.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 26, 2018

It's directly due to the dramatic somnolence of the first half that what comes after hits with such blunt force.

| Jan 26, 2018