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Justine Elias

Justine Elias's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 2/5 EDIT “...the movie isn't as jam-packed with humour as go-for-broke parodies like Top Secret!, Airplane or The Naked Gun, so when a gag falls flat, and they often do, the dead spots are painful. ” – The Arts Desk Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “...Folktales reveals some deeper truths about how the young, and maybe all of us, are simply overwhelmed and overstimulated by the modern world. ” – The Arts Desk Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “This is seriously unflashy filmmaking with a few awkward transitions, including a coda that seems awfully sudden. Still, it hits hard.” – The Arts Desk Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “The moviemaking is disappointingly straightforward; Christy is no Raging Bull. ” – The Arts Desk Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% 4/5 EDIT “The Perfect Neighbor is a hard watch, and not just because the shaky, fish-eye lensed footage, ably assembled by editor Viridiana Lieberman, can induce vertigo and nausea in viewers. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Iron Ladies (2025) 4/5 EDIT “When you see a woman in her eighties at the forefront of a protest, pushing her walking frame and leading a chant, it’s impossible not to be stirred.” – The Arts Desk Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% 3/5 EDIT “The Woman in Cabin 10's central puzzle is solved too early, and the movie turns into a pedestrian thriller. However, author Ware has written several more Laura Blacklock mysteries, so the prospect of more Knightley...is intriguing.” – The Arts Desk Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “By turns despairing, defiant, and darkly humorous, Murphy’s performance is a tour de force and might be the closest experience moviegoers have to seeing the Irish actor in his savagely kinetic yet fiercely controlled stage performances.” – The Arts Desk Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “The four actresses display plenty of wit as they impersonate each other, but there are only so many times that a woman (or girl) can clap eyes on her reflection, gasp in horror, or trip and fall off her high heels.” – The Arts Desk Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Tornado (2025) 66% 4/5 EDIT “...[Tornado] is an even more stylized foray into the territory of Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa.” – The Arts Desk Jun 16, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 47% 3/5 EDIT “For action-movie fans who rely on Statham (and Neeson and Gerard Butler) for an explosive movie fix, A Working Man might be enough. But this isn't Statham or Ayer's flash-bang best.” – The Arts Desk Apr 2, 2025 Full Review William Tell (2024) 54% 3/5 EDIT “To its credit, William Tell finds room for noble sentiments amid rousing action sequences like the storming of castles. And there are no less than three fully realized female supporting roles.” – The Arts Desk Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Witches (2024) 84% 3/5 EDIT “Witches should go a long way to taking postpartum depression -- and socially stigamitised women -- more seriously.” – The Arts Desk Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Joy (2024) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Forty-six years on from the birth of baby Brown, it’s hard to remember just how revolutionary this procedure was. Yet Joy’s timeliness cannot be understated. ” – The Arts Desk Nov 17, 2024 Full Review Notes from Sheepland (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Notes From Sheepland weaves together two tales -- the connection between people and animals, and our casual heartlessness toward them, and a struggle to make sense of it.” – The Arts Desk Sep 20, 2024 Full Review The Critic (2023) 51% 4/5 EDIT “As played by Ian McKellen, Erskine is a magnificent bastard, gifted, witty, and treading a fine line with his conservative employer. ” – The Arts Desk Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Starve Acre (2023) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Starve Acre, based on a novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, shuns shock scares, instead finding sinisterness in its lonely setting.” – The Arts Desk Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Despite a few shameless jump-scares, it's this season's unexpected interloper -- a sophisticated, entertaining horror film with an offbeat sense of humour. ” – The Arts Desk Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 56% 4/5 EDIT “Shyamalan exercises hard-handed control over everything without the virtuoso touches of his betters. He’s an effortful auteur, and the pleasant Trap springs some shivery fun on its own audience.” – The Arts Desk Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Sorcery (2023) 87% 3/5 EDIT “[Sorcery] sticks to a deliberate, even slack pace. Its real power, though, is Veliz Caileo’s quietly forceful performance. When the film’s shapeshifting mystery get murky, this young performer remains compelling.” – The Arts Desk Jun 17, 2024 Full Review Riddle Of Fire (2023) 79% 3/5 EDIT “The movie’s handmade look (including authentically burned-out 16mm cinematography by Jake Mitchell), and the charming, unschooled performances of the young performers, prove to be irresistible. ” – The Arts Desk Jun 10, 2024 Full Review Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Love Lies Bleeding’s portrait of doomed, dangerous romance knows where it’s going: straight into the pantheon of New Queer Cinema.” – The Arts Desk May 6, 2024 Full Review I.S.S. (2023) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) and screenwriter Nick Shafir nimbly sketch out the station’s cramped layout and the possibly false bonhomie among the crew, turning I.S.S. into a taut sci-fi take on Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat. ” – The Arts Desk Apr 26, 2024 Full Review Night Swim (2024) 19% 3/5 EDIT “Night Swim paddles in circles around inchoate human fears rather than diving furiously into a vortex of terror.” – The Arts Desk Jan 8, 2024 Full Review Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023) 42% 3/5 EDIT “As is typical for an SNL-spawned movie, Treasure meanders. Unusually though, the ratio of jokes to running time remains favorable, even if some of the surprise cameos fail to amaze. ” – The Arts Desk Dec 11, 2023 Full Review
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