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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
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Read from 33 comments (31 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 14 of them described how it moves.
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“The first and the last 10 minutes was the only thing realistic in this movie”
Svumpukkel85 · TMDB reviews ↗
“The first and the last 10 minutes was the only thing realistic in this movie”
Svumpukkel85 · TMDB reviews ↗
“I thought it would be a boring movie and it kinda was but I could feel a tension throughout all movie”
davd123 · Metacritic ↗
“It´s definitely engaging form beginning to end (despite being long, many things happen)”
sanyrub · Metacritic ↗
“in this movie you would think that the movie is over at the 3/4 of it, but then you realized that are more minutes of the movie, and that´s when you´re lost and the movie is not gonna help you find it, you must find it”
avr50 · Metacritic ↗
“Le Hollandais volant sait encore en quelques scènes ici et là sans fard et sans fioritures nous estomaquer par la brutalité et l'agression (sexuelles bien sûr)”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 79% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“Elle would be unimaginable without Huppert, who delivers a performance of such virtuosity that she turns what is essentially a raving sociopath into one of the most alluring protagonists in recent memory.”
Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage · 100
“The film is utterly gripping and endlessly disturbing.”
Xan Brooks, The Guardian · 100
“Knowingly incendiary but remarkably cool-headed, and built around yet another of Isabelle Huppert’s staggering psychological dissections, Paul Verhoeven’s long-awaited return to notional genre filmmaking pulls off a breathtaking bait-and-switch: Audiences arriving for a lurid slab of arthouse exploitation will be taken off-guard by the complex, compassionate, often corrosively funny examination of unconventional desires that awaits them.”
Guy Lodge, Variety · 100
“This is a film that isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure, recognizing that desire simply doesn’t recognize good manners.”
Diego Semerene, Slant Magazine · 100
“One conundrum is that Elle is singularly a Verhoeven film, but doesn’t quite look like one.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 90, the watch 53
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“I thought it would be a boring movie and it kinda was but I could feel a tension throughout all movie”
davd123about 0–100% inread it ↗
“It´s definitely engaging form beginning to end (despite being long, many things happen)”
sanyrubabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“in this movie you would think that the movie is over at the 3/4 of it, but then you realized that are more minutes of the movie, and that´s when you´re lost and the movie is not gonna help you find it, you must find it”
avr50about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Le Hollandais volant sait encore en quelques scènes ici et là sans fard et sans fioritures nous estomaquer par la brutalité et l'agression (sexuelles bien sûr)”
Broyaxabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“The first and the last 10 minutes was the only thing realistic in this movie”
Svumpukkel85about 0–10% inread it ↗
“The first and the last 10 minutes was the only thing realistic in this movie”
Svumpukkel85about 90–100% inread it ↗
“**Sometimes the crime decides its own fate.** I had no thought before the watch, but while watching it, I felt it was overrated. That's for a moment, once I finished watching it, realised it's a better film. I mean I changed my stance, after over and over thinking about the film. So its the patience you need, wait till the film to end to decide how much you liked it. It was too long, but every space was filled up with the best parts. It took time to understand the characters, and with multipl”
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