7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Islands (2025)
Islands (2025)
Overview
Islands is a 2025 German psychological thriller directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis coach at a tropical resort who becomes entangled in a missing persons mystery. Co-starring Stacy Martin as Anne, Jack Farthing as Dave, and Fatima Adoum as Amina. The film premiered at the 2025 Berlinale.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
Islands is a 2025 German psychological thriller directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis coach at a tropical resort who becomes entangled in a missing persons mystery. Co-starring Stacy Martin as Anne, Jack Farthing as Dave, and Fatima Adoum as Amina. The film premiered at the 2025 Berlinale.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Subtle critiques of wealthy tourists' superficial lives and contrasts with locals' realities highlight social divides, lending a left-leaning tilt to the narrative's exploration of disconnection.
Diversity manifests in supporting roles with actors of Chadian, Moroccan, and Spanish descent depicting local islanders. The story offers a subtle examination of white expats' alienation amid the Canary Islands' cultural landscape, highlighting contrasts with residents' rooted existences.
Secondary
Taut character study interlaces marital discord with surrogate fatherhood, portraying nuclear family bonds as constricting and ripe for rupture.
The film features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on heterosexual relationships and sexual tension within a thriller framework.
The film contains no identifiable transgender characters or themes.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Islands presents an original story with newly created characters, including tennis coach Tom and a British couple, without drawing from prior source material or historical figures that would involve gender swaps.
Islands presents original characters created for the screenplay, without prior source material establishing canonical races, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
6.1
Critic Ratings
9.2
7.7
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