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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Holland

“The Paperboy,” “Trespass,” even “Bewitched,” all the way back to “Dead Calm” and up through last year’s “Babygirl,” any new Nicole Kidman joint deserves rigorous analysis. Her latest movie, “Holland,” set in the eponymous Michigan Dutch enclave and bringing the veneer of the perfect family to heel when a missing earring sends Kidman’s home economics teacher over the edge and into the teeth of a may-or-may-not-be murder mystery, deserves such rigorous analysis too. And yet, as I watched it, and as I kept considering it afterward, trying to carve a review into blog stone, all I could really think about was Cosmo Kramer’s quote-unquote boss at Brandt-Leland in S8E3 of “Seinfeld” unable to make heads or tails of the reports his faux employee has handed in.