Sam Riley stars as Tom, a washed-up tennis-pro-turned-coach at a luxury island hotel on the Canary Islands, in Islands, the English-language debut of A Coffee in Berlin director Jan-Ole Gerster. He shows up late to work, coffee from the buffet in-hand, and hopes to skip a class whenever possible. However much Martin and Riley try, they just aren’t as convincing as a “will-they-won’t-they” onscreen couple, she being a much more dominating role than Riley’s Tom is able to submit to. The film works best if you surrender to its moods and vibes (and the gorgeous score by Dascha Dauenhauer) with the ocean, cliffs, and beaches of the Canary Islands at an arm’s length. Though there’s also the volcano on Lanzarote––a very obvious metaphor here, but why not––its smoke doesn’t necessarily mean fire, par for the course with Islands.