Lyle Lascelle

Much more interesting than the spy movies Tom Cruise has been churning out for the past few years.

It's a slow burn, but worth the wait. Particularly tense for me due to the absence of a soundtrack. I recommend.

I don't often review films, but when they're this bad, I must speak up. I read many positive reviews about Elle and had it on my watch list for months. I don't understand what anybody saw in this steaming pile of refuse. The opening is a rape scene. Thereafter, our victim flits around the neighborhood and the office as if she was merely inconvenienced by an overbooked flight and hops in and out of bed with a revolving door of men. Rape victims don't do that! Hell, women who've been threatened with rape don't do that! This story is so ridiculously implausible I don't know how it ever got green-lighted. Or maybe that's just how people carry on in France.

The soundtrack is absolutely excruciating. I don't think I can finish this movie.