Emilia Pérez

"(A) dazzling and instantly divisive film."

"A debacle you won't forget."

"Exhilarating and exasperating."

"A thoroughly implausible yarn... carried along by its cheesy Broadway energy."

"Bracingly original."

"So bonkers it works."

"A joyfully erratic opera swirled with a soapy melodrama."

"I don’t understand why a movie that’s so bonkers in other ways chooses to undercut its strengths with this shallow understanding of its titular character."

"It falls prey to redundancy... betraying how little it has to say in the first place."

"If Sergio Leone were alive and making musicals, he might have engineered something this grand and sweeping."

"No one emerges unscathed from this bad telenovela."

"There is something distinctly ultra-processed about the movie. Every time the music stops, the din of calculation is deafening."

"Dazzling but hollow."

"There's a distinct rift between all those big emotions that the characters are cycling through and what the audience is feeling, which is practically nothing."

"Ultimately (it) seems strangely underwhelming, like a lavish party that falls just a little flat."

"Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy has neither good jokes nor good music."

"(Gascón) gives Emilia and the yearning Manitas a gravity and conflicted complexity the story doesn't always earn."

"Something inventively original and never, ever bland."

"A reductive take on the trans experience."

"An exuberant ode to human possibility."

"It's (Gascón) who finally gives the movie real stakes. She is its heart and soul both."