Set around a luxury hotel in the Canary Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster’s drama follows a Brit tennis coach whose inertia is shaken ...

Ole Gerster’s mesmerizing, mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — ...

detective stumbles through his morning routine — a role for which Riley proves entirely convincing. But there’s also a much deeper malaise at work, like something out of an Antonioni movie.

It’s carried by compelling performances from Riley and Stacy Martin, by its atmospheric setting and by the reliable pleasures of the troubled vacation subgenre. But at two hours, Islands ...

The lid is barely clamped down on the always-sunny volcanic Canary Island, as a locally-based tennis pro played by Sam Riley becomes entangled in the unhappy lives of a visiting British family.

It’s about a disappearance on Fuerteventura, which implicates Tom (Sam Riley), a dissolute tennis coach working at an all-inclusive resort, because he was one of the last witnesses to the ...

Jan-Ole Gerster’s Thriller ‘Islands,’ Starring Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing, Boarded by Protagonist (EXCLUSIVE) Leo Barraclough Wed, January 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC ...