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Ellen E Jones

Ellen E Jones's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Fountain of Youth (2025) 35% EDIT “Mission: physiologically impossible, more like. And it’s exactly the kind of preposterous showboating silliness that has made the Mission: Impossible films such fun over the years.” – Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% EDIT “It’s cliched, but the pure love that exists between a kid and their pet -- or furry blue alien -- is also timelessly touching. It’s the Disney way.” – Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review When The Light Breaks (2024) 97% EDIT “Hall is a fine actor whose elfin face registers every ripple of grief emanating from that first shock of impact. This performance... casts these intense emotions in a useful new light.” – Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Mongrel (2024) 92% EDIT “This striking debut feature from Singaporean film-maker Chiang Wei Liang, co-directed with You Qiao Yin, is a sombre and painterly work.” – Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “Anderson’s shot compositions always were pleasing to the eye. It’s the heart and the brain that are starved when every emotion is kept at such a vast ironic distance. ” – Observer (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% EDIT “Big, dumb action movies -- of which this is an adequate example -- certainly have their place, but the move to rebrand geopolitics as pulp entertainment is, I think we can all agree, not a particularly helpful development at this point in time.” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Hot Milk (2025) 37% EDIT “This is storytelling that bares its teeth, but it’s not the most comfortable place to spend time.” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Is this the real punk rock? Absolutely not. But Corenswet has a hopeful quality, capable of lifting audiences up, up and away: you will once again believe a man can fly.” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2025) 50% EDIT “There are flashes of originality and beauty, but only when glimpsed in Modigliani’s works. The film’s own uninspired composition suffers greatly from the comparison.” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Nine Queens (2001) 92% EDIT “Like all true treasures, Nine Queens has only appreciated in value since its original release” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The Other Way Around (2024) 91% EDIT “Trueba’s light-footed film keeps their relationship in a state of sweetly suspended animation: Ale and Álex will be together, and not together, for ever. What could be more romantic than that?” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) 91% EDIT “Listen closely. This is the voice of a political prophecy that will echo inside your mind for years to come.” – Observer (UK) Oct 7, 2025 Full Review I Am Martin Parr (2024) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The opportunity here to see Parr’s many truly striking images -- especially his lesser-seen and touchingly humanist early black-and-white work -- leaves the photographer’s legacy in no doubt. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2025 Full Review September Says (2024) 63% 2/5 EDIT “These directorial choices also act to keep the sisters at an emotional distance, as if the camera were another classmate wary -- or weary? -- of their kooky unpredictability. Would that the plot twist was equally unpredictable.” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% 5/5 EDIT “Such intricate genre mechanisms are fundamental to The Monkey’s construction, but the film also has a heart that beats with authentic human emotion. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) 27% 2/5 EDIT “Perhaps the film is more usefully read as a caution against wasteful consumerism in the age of Amazon deliveries. When you can summon an item as soon as think of it, what value does anything have?” – Observer (UK) Aug 5, 2024 Full Review A Place Called Silence (2024) 3/5 EDIT “There are tonally jarring comic caricatures... These, plus an abundance of suspenseful set pieces and proper plot twists, keep us adequately entertained. Unless, of course, you’ve already seen the 2022 original.” – Observer (UK) Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Alma's Rainbow (1994) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Alma’s Rainbow has matured into a worthwhile watch, with appropriately colourful costumes, a curvy jazz score and plenty of hard-won womanly wisdom to impart.” – Observer (UK) Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The boy does not become a man, or an artist, overnight. Nor even over the course of one transformative and cinematic summer.” – Observer (UK) Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Kensuke's Kingdom (2023) 97% 3/5 EDIT “This is all nobly intended, with impeccable credentials and expertly crafted, but the fear remains that... Kensuke’s Kingdom will fall squarely into the category of “Films Parents Think Their Kids Ought to Enjoy”.” – Observer (UK) Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Shoshana (2023) 73% 4/5 EDIT “Now is as good a time as any to better understand Israel, and Michael Winterbottom may be the film-maker best placed to aid us in this understanding.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Out of Darkness (2022) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Proof that even the most basic cinematic tools can be used to make fire.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review A Wolfpack Called Ernesto (2023) 2/5 EDIT “These accounts are often chillingly amoral or fleetingly poetic, but rarely do they succeed in engaging us emotionally.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Memory (2023) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Gradually and delicately, Sylvia and Saul’s tessellating traumas are revealed by a beautifully balanced pair of lead performances – though their happy-ever-after is never assured.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Wicked Little Letters (2023) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Swearing can be comic, but it might also be the way that a highly pressurised, repressive and patriarchal postwar society lets off a bit of steam.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review
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