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Elle

Elle is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Candice Frederick, Emily Tannenbaum, Emma Dibdin, Judy Berman, Kit Stone, Max Gao, Michael Arceneaux, Molly Fitzpatrick, Tomris Laffly.

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Urchin (2025) Tomris Laffly Harris Dickinson might be the most exciting new auteur since the Safdie Brothers. The future of British social realism looks promising thanks to his debut--knows his Ken Loach and Mike Leigh inside and out but doesn’t carbon-copy what came before.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Tomris Laffly A heart-swelling and unexpectedly humor-filled tale that will break you before it makes you whole again. You will leave the movie with a newfound gratitude for all that cinema can do.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Tomris Laffly You won’t see a better political thriller this year than Filho’s ultra-chic genre entry, loosely in the spirit of a Costa-Gavras picture.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Tomris Laffly The most adventurous and formally ambitious film of this year’s Cannes competition. A soul-stirring feat that will inspire generations to come.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Tomris Laffly A terrific debut that brings thriller vibes to an all-boys summer camp for water polo, this brilliantly written feature ingeniously utilizes the staple moves of horror.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Tomris Laffly Lighton radiantly walks a delicate tonal line with feeling and humor within a subculture.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Tomris Laffly An elegant love letter to the influential era in French cinema. In stunning black and white, and with the grainy sound quality of the era, Linklater gives new life to period picture, making it romantic, exquisitely detailed, and timeless.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Tomris Laffly A multilayered portrayal of Black masculinity, both adoringly seen through the eyes of the film’s young characters and carried with poetic poise by Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Tomris Laffly A dazzling little caper enlivened by the spirit of the ’70s cinema.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Little Sister (2025) Tomris Laffly Where a lesser movie would have milked the conservative Muslim family trope (which this Muslim critic has had enough of), The Little Sister fashions a beautiful mother-daughter scene where unconditional love is deeply felt and packs a universal punch.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Tomris Laffly Panahi signs his name under one of his best and most personal films to date.
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The History of Sound (2025) Tomris Laffly A masterclass in tender restraint. A rare treat to luxuriate in.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Tomris Laffly Ari Aster transforms everyday American insanity into one of the most artistically complete and compulsively watchable doom-scrolls of the year.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Millers in Marriage (2024) Max Gao Millers captures a latter stage of adulthood that might only make sense to those who have already experienced it, but the concept of never settling for anything less than one believes they deserve is a message that will resonate across generations.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
On Swift Horses (2024) Max Gao Daniel Minahan has chosen to bring his artistic sensibility to a gorgeously-lensed, ’50s-set romantic drama starring two of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Max Gao Sexy, provocative, and surprisingly funny, Babygirl shrewdly subverts any expectations of a typical erotic thriller.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Elton John: Never Too Late (2024) Max Gao Never Too Late serves as a fitting tribute to the life and legacy of one of the greatest musicians—and LGBTQ+ icons—of all time.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Piano Lesson (2024) Max Gao Danielle Deadwyler delivers another powerhouse performance as Berniece, a widowed single mother who refuses to let her brother Boy Willie sell their heirloom to buy the land their ancestors were enslaved upon.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Max Gao A riveting psychological thriller with an absurd final twist, the film depicts Cardinals as self-serving, power-hungry politicians who spend their limited time together attempting to convince one another that they are the lesser of two evils.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wild Robot (2024) Max Gao Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, and Pedro Pascal form the emotional core of this heartfelt film. It’s a perfect family movie.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Malcolm & Marie (2021) Candice Frederick With its terrific performances, resonating dialogue, and elegant single-setting production, the film compels us to see beyond a couple clamoring across the house and acknowledge that a perpetually underestimated woman has found her voice.
Posted Feb 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Audrey (2020) Candice Frederick Hepburn confronted challenges both in front of and away from the camera, and Audrey shows she's an icon not because she's the archetype of what every woman should be.
Posted Jan 15, 2021  Edit critic review
Promising Young Woman (2020) Candice Frederick Promising Young Woman is more profoundly a devastating reflection of a woman consumed with grief.
Posted Jan 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Pieces of a Woman (2020) Candice Frederick Pieces of a Woman is a rather blunted depiction of an endlessly complex subject that deserves much more contemplation. Despite impressive performances, it fails to truly hit that mark.
Posted Jan 14, 2021  Edit critic review
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) Judy Berman Ortega's production is full of curious directorial choices like this. A few hit. Many miss.
Posted Jun 11, 2018  Edit critic review
Colossal (2016) Estelle Tang It's unfortunate that this startling story about toxic masculinity is marred by an insensitive racial dynamic and a lack of awareness that who Oscar and Gloria's victims are is a problem. But in some ways, that's not a surprise at all.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) Estelle Tang Bombshell is often pure fun-it doesn't have much choice, given the robust bites its subject took out of life.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Two Weeks Notice (2002) Estelle Tang But for this independent, intelligent, and typically professional woman to fall to pieces simply because she's drunk and recently broke up with her boyfriend is very annoying.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Estelle Tang Far from Star Wars' laddish origins, The Last Jedi puts women at the forefront-amazingly, without congratulating itself for doing so-and treats them as equals. How refreshing.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Love & Mercy (2014) Ben Dickinson [John] Cusack, in particular, doing some of the best work of his impressive career, captures the subtlest manifestations of Brian's off-kilter wit and wobbliness in exquisite detail.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) Ben Dickinson But the absolute best thing about Far from the Madding Crowd s Carey Mulligan's Everdene.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Boyhood (2014) Ben Dickinson The transformation in Mason that we witness makes this film nothing short of astonishing-in the same way that kids can be in real life.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
While We're Young (2014) Ben Dickinson Baumbach succeeds in vividly depicting how the people who occasionally serve as catalysts in our lives inevitably do so with results we cannot imagine beforehand-but, if we're lucky, leave us with a little more self-knowledge than we started with.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Ben Dickinson I never said this movie wouldn't wring you out. But, reluctant moviegoer, you won't regret it-not for a second.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Grandma (2015) Ben Dickinson There's lived-in wisdom in Reid's bluff honesty, and at the closing shot, of her marching off across L.A., we're left to conclude hopefully that she's got a lot more marching in her.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
The Martian (2015) Ben Dickinson The Martian marks a wonderful return to grand filmmaking for the prodigious producer and director Ridley Scott after his humorless and joyless recent outings...
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Room (2015) Ben Dickinson A rarity: a fairly lurid, ripped-from-the-headlines fiction that isn't played for cheap, cheesy thrills but rather, with insight and wisdom, explores the extremes of human experience that it would give rise to.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Carol (2015) Ben Dickinson Carol notably soft-pedals the tragedy that the novel arrives at, but it improves on Highsmith's formulation when Carol brilliantly, tormentedly summarizes the hopelessness of her struggle to keep her daughter.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
The Danish Girl (2015) Ben Dickinson The Danish Girl admirably illustrates how sexuality reaches to the very root of the human spirit.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Tumbledown (2015) Ben Dickinson It all tends to stick with you-more than just a little bit.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
A Bigger Splash (2015) Ben Dickinson To behold him mansplaining rock 'n' roll inspiration to the legendary Marianne Lane is horrible and hilarious; Harry is a unique high-low point in [Ralph] Fiennes's oeuvre.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Money Monster (2016) Ben Dickinson Let's just say it's a helluva ride.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Our Kind of Traitor (2016) Ben Dickinson [Susanna] White... has taken a marvelously lucid script by veteran screenwriter Hossein Amini and jumped her career way up to the next level by making one of the more inspired Le Carr adaptations ever shot.
Posted May 18, 2018  Edit critic review
The Birth of a Nation (2016) Ben Dickinson In The Birth of a Nation, Parker has put forward a purposeful and uncompromising provocation.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Ben Dickinson Leave it to Streep to find the Jenkins in herself-and to make us care, even a little, about this epic misadventuress who made it all the way to Carnegie Hall. Once.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Loving (2016) Ben Dickinson The lead performances here are humble and powerful, and the storytelling and camerawork in the service of their story is granular and pointillistic in its unerring detail.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Fences (2016) Ben Dickinson An enduring, indelible interpretation of this conflicted figure and the family that surrounds him.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) Ben Dickinson The marvellous thing about Bright Lights is that it is not at all a conventional Hollywood hagiography-far from it. Carrie would never have acceded to that in a million years .
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Elle (2016) Laurie Abraham Elle is unpredictable, disturbing, disturbingly funny...and acknowledges that baser sexual urges are not always bad, not always good, sometimes arousing, and probably being engaged in more than we think.
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
Elle (2016) Ben Dickinson Ending notwithstanding, the bottom line is that Elle is standard "ironically" transgressive radio-shock-jock stuff gussied up for tony audiences as that art-house staple...
Posted May 17, 2018  Edit critic review
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