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Her Smell

2018

Alex Ross Perry

Elisabeth Moss, Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens ...

5.8

303

Drama A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. Elisabeth Moss will star as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family, and followers to the limit as she wages a years-long war against sobriety while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Moss takes a character who makes Courtney Love look like Mother Teresa and exposes the shards of humanity that once vitalized and defined her music. The effect is shattering (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Moss varies the volume and the tempo of her performance, calling forth cascades of profane invention and rills of whispery poetry, but she always stays in the same key, the key of Becky."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The auteur’s sixth feature is truly a painful sit for the first 80 minutes, after which a measure of redemption arrives. But it’s too little far too late."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s truly one of the most noxious movies ever made, which might help to explain why it’s also Perry’s best (...) The second half is so rich and hopeful that it almost feels like a sweet reward for not walking out of the theater."
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Wildly uneven, sporadically brilliant, occasionally unbearable, Perry’s sprawling portrait of a self-destructive rock star is carried by a performance by Elisabeth Moss which is turned all the way up to eleven, and beyond."
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] is at once absorbing and indulgent (...) Elisabeth Moss’s commitment, and the burnished bravura of her talent, pull you through"
		Sara Stewart New York Post	"Moss is a primal, predatory force in 'Her Smell', a female-centric spin on the classic debauched rock star story."
		Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"[It] is built around a performance of near-unwatchable toxicity by Moss, a combination of Courtney Love and Ledger’s Joker (...) An uneven, unsettling film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Emily Yoshida Vulture	"Some may not have the stomach for it, and yet Moss's oscillating, energy-devouring performance and the real-time composition of Perry's scenes make it almost impossible to look away."
		Kate Taylor The Globe and Mail	"Moss performance holds passionately to the character’s ugly depths (...) Viewers, however, may be so exhausted they won’t see the point in sticking with her (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Victor Stiff The Playlist	"Moss makes the most out of every second on screen (...) The picture’s 35mm photography, weighty themes, and entertaining musical numbers, and you have a film that is worthy of a spot on your must-see list."

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