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Joel Harley

Joel Harley's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Taking an approach which both modernises the source material and pays tribute to the grit of its ’80s predecessor, Silent Night, Deadly Night is a joyfully subversive take on the horror remake.” – Starburst Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Wicked: For Good struggles to recapture the magic of either the first half or the stage show it’s based on. It’s still a thoroughly enrapturing adaptation, but one can’t help but feel this return to Oz has come off the rails.” – Starburst Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A bold action film with charm, grace and a strong emotional throughline, Badlands is perhaps the most human Predator yet. Not bad, considering there’s not a single one in the whole film.” – Starburst Nov 10, 2025 Full Review The Turkish Coffee Table (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It doesn’t always work (there’s one shot near the end where it really doesn’t work), but it’s a valid difference in approach which makes The Turkish Coffee Table stand out from the original edition.” – Starburst Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Deathgasm II: Goremageddon (2025) 4/5 EDIT “A beautifully bonkers encore performance.” – Starburst Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Every Heavy Thing (2025) 4/5 EDIT “When not wallowing in its neo-noir trappings, Every Heavy Thing deftly blends black comedy with vivid 80s and early 90s-era surrealism, employing the grit and texture of a De Palma, Lynch or Cronenberg along with its more modern influences.” – Starburst Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Dolly (2025) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Dolly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but nor does it seek to. Instead, it’ll tear that wheel straight off the truck and clobber you over the head with it, until you too have had your brain turned into mushy headcheese.” – Starburst Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Mag Mag (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Led by a wonderfully off-the-wall performance from Minami, Mag Mag is a treat for fans of the subgenre and its tropes.” – Starburst Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “While writer Will Tracy’s screenplay may be too conformist for the Lanthomos faithful, it’s also more challenging than the popcorn crowd might have expected, relishing in its moments of extreme gore and grim torture sequences. ” – Starburst Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Martyrs (2008) 66% 5/5 EDIT “Written in a deep depression (and one can tell!), Martyrs is a work of bleak and unrelenting nihilism. ” – Starburst Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Borderline (2025) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Its successes are outweighed by everything that’s not-so-great, including entire sub-plots and characters Warden’s screenplay could have done without.” – Starburst Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% 3/5 EDIT “Bone Lake isn’t as clever or subversive or even sexy as it thinks it is, but it has fun trying.” – Starburst Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Kombucha (2025) 4/5 EDIT “As tortured artist Luke, Carey is phenomenal, demonstrating a big enough talent during the opening scenes that we can buy into his frustration at being turned into a dead-eyed, kombucha-swilling office drone.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Cognaitive (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It’s a delightfully savage takedown of AI, tech bros, and Slack in the workplace.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Parasomnia (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It’s a startling feature debut from its director, who keeps a tight handle on tone and pace, while throwing in plenty of striking imagery.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Five (2025) 4/5 EDIT “It’s an inventive and original comedy horror that should tickle the fancy of fans of demonic possession horror movies and cheesy Hallmark romcoms.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Flush (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Morin and screenwriter David Neiss approach Luc’s plight with a relatively straight face, trusting in the absurdity of the situation. The pair do impressive work in continually raising the stakes.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Healing Andy (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It is admittedly effective in building a discomforting atmosphere, even if it’s just by volume rather than content. Director Villablanca shoots the whole thing on iPhone, giving it an unsettling, all-too-real feel.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review El Instinto (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Pereira manages to sell Abel’s sense of helplessness without coming across as a complete pushover, while Cayo emanates a quiet sense of menace in the time leading up to his going all-out mask off barking mad.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Crushed (2025) 4/5 EDIT “While it can’t sustain that initial feeling of discomfort and dread for long, the quiet aftermath is almost as bad, as though Rumley has pulled back the curtain on a world of hurt and pain that no-one needed or wanted to see. ” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Bamboo Revenge (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Bamboo Revenge is a chilling depiction of the predatory behaviour of males in spaces where women are just trying to live, exist and have a good time.” – Starburst Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Human (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Human is not a pleasant horror film, but it is an undeniably effective one.” – Starburst Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Blockhead (2025) 3/5 EDIT “A solid enough independent thriller, but a really good depiction of the profound discomfort artsy types have around those who work a more hands-on profession.” – Starburst Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Influencers (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Influencers is a superior sequel in almost every way, repurposing everything which worked about the previous film while doubling down on the horror and thriller elements.” – Starburst Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Rows (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The Row’s kernels of brilliance make it all the more frustrating, obscuring a genuinely tense Cornfield Invasion movie behind something deliberately obtuse and alien.” – Starburst Aug 28, 2025 Full Review
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