PiraBit
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Nicole
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Taxiridefan
I watched the first episode and became wrapped up in the mysteries that surround the house and its inhabitants, the Mysterious Miniaturist and how they seemed to know everything that was going on within those walls. Then we get to the second episode and what do we get? Two characters are dead, there really was no big mystery to the Miniaturist, she was just observant and life will just go on. No mystery, no intrigue, just a flat ending.
Watching this was like going to the symphony where it builds up to this huge crescendo and the end is someone blowing a party whistle.
There was no point to any of it.
frukuk
A beautifully paced beginning, with some excellent acting (especially from Anya Taylor-Joy), peters out following the big reveal about the marriage.Given the miniaturist seems to remain unpaid after supplying unsolicited miniatures, I really didn't understand what motivated her. (So it clearly wasn't money. Was it that she was driven, as an artist, to create her works? If so, that needed to be communicated much more clearly.)
chinesexiaomin
I agree with the reviewer below who said that the miniaturist served nothing. If the core of everything is the miniaturist (not the miniatures !), the film could be titled as "the miniaturist"; while the core of the film is the girl Nella! Why isn't it called "Nella and her myserious miniatures" or something like that? I've never read the book, so I'm not saying about the book; Watching the film. when I first saw Nella (who seemed quite center-character like) I thought SHE was the miniaturist (because the title is The Miniaturist) but then oh no the miniaturist is just a mysterious girl served nothing.
On the other hand, Nella is strong and not religion-baffled like Marin(though she is sort of a feminist too). The characters are charming, though Johannes is really dumb-like (while Frans is played rather convincingly here).
Adriaan
Often people lament that a movie was not like the book that preceded it. For those people, this movie must be like a godsend. It follows the book religiously. And due to this, it falls flat. It is one way to build up tension in a written story, but using that exactly same build-up rarely works on screen. With more liberty to mold the plot to fit the screen, this could really have been a good mini-series.
