The trippy visuals, provocative ideas, and gifted cast make this twisted fairy tale worth watching.

| Nov 30, 2021

There's no tension as to where things are going to end up, the final images leaving me cold.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2019

Give it up for "Paradise Hills" for swinging for the fences when it comes to bat-bleep crazy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2019

A disappointingly half-baked riff on The Stepford Wives whose brand of feminism feels more 1970s than 2010s.

| Oct 31, 2019

For a long time I had no idea what the hell was going on in this movie... I tapped out.

| Oct 28, 2019

This is a film that, if I was 15-years-old and having a sleepover with my friends, I would 100 percent want to put on.

| Oct 28, 2019

There are a few good ideas, and a few good twists at the end, but it's not enough to make up for the rookie mistakes that undercut its potential.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

A clever if somewhat under-realized mash-up of "The Prisoner," "The Hunger Games" and "The Stepford Wives," the movie has such confidence - and such an impressive sense of design - that its simplistic narrative isn't much of a drawback.

| Oct 25, 2019

Alice Waddington's sci-fi fantasy never finds a cohesive story wrapper for its themes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2019

It's a lot to take in, and "Paradise Hills" isn't up to the task.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 24, 2019

Waddington is clearly a unique talent, and in many ways "Paradise Hills" is a highly accomplished debut. But it will require careful selection of future material to ensure her gifts get applied to appropriate and sufficient narrative bedrock.

| Oct 24, 2019

Despite her shaky handle on the movie's ideas and the appealing if uneven performances, Waddington holds your attention with visual beauty and humor.

| Oct 23, 2019

It's smart and gorgeous, but it lacks the heart to make it poignant or profound.

| Aug 10, 2019

Paradise Hills plays a bit like the Rogue One to The Hunger Games' Skywalker Trilogy.

| Original Score: B | Aug 2, 2019

I don't know if Paradise Hill works well as the revisionist feminist fable Waddington intended, but as inspiration to generations of cosplayers to come, it's fantastic.

| Apr 11, 2019

Overflows with concepts and intricate attributes, which range in levels of efficacy but are always tantalizing to the eye.

| Jan 31, 2019

It's best to assume the filmmakers have their tongues at least somewhat in cheek, and just embrace the crazy as a pulpy camp indulgence, like some kind of post-feminist Barbarella meets The Handmaid's Tale.

| Jan 31, 2019

"Paradise Hills" is neither light nor dramatic, funny nor sad. It's just moody and thus aimless.

| Jan 31, 2019