Femme
Utopia | Release Date: March 22, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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11
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3
Negative:
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91
ColliderMarco Vito OddoFeb 23, 2023
The main characters of Femme are more than one-dimensional representations of the part they play in society. They are complex human beings, filled with contradictions and trying to get by despite past traumas. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiMay 1, 2024
Sex can be a rigid rubric of performance for some and a fluid experiment in expression for others. The friction between those two perspectives fascinates Femme, a volatile, sensuous revenge film in which the body and its desires don’t lie. Read full review
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMar 22, 2024
The film’s outsides, all darkness and furtive lighting, seem to pour out of the characters’ insides, where pockets of trauma live in their own self-erected shadows. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesManuel BetancourtApr 2, 2024
Within that funhouse mirror of an erotic-thriller premise, Femme proves to be a gorgeously mounted meditation on queer and queered performance. Read full review
80
EmpireSophie ButcherDec 1, 2023
George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett utterly thrill in this sexually charged, suspense-filled watch. Don’t let this one pass you by. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeFeb 23, 2023
The directors’ first joint feature is a tremendously effective revenge movie; a picture that reframes the neo-noir by harnessing a hate crime and diverting its power into a thrillingly transgressive erotic thriller. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 23, 2023
A pair of sensational performances by Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (“Candyman”) and George MacKay (“1917”), locked in a nervy duet as two men with virtually nothing in common but their sexuality, represents the chief selling point for this stylish, commendably uncompromising fusion of genre fireworks and measured, thoughtful character study. Read full review
78
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpMar 27, 2024
Femme acknowledges its tropes and clichés; the film never soft-shoes the important part they play in its structure. What it does with them, though, feels fresh. Revenge is often ill-advised, even nihilistic. Femme’s revenge is a stamped guarantee of self-destruction. Read full review
75
The Film StageAlistair RyderMar 22, 2024
The suddenness with which it races to a disappointingly conventional resolution is the only misstep among a bold, remarkably assured debut feature. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaMar 21, 2024
The film avoids a cut-and-dried triumphalism for something more slippery and, perhaps, more meaningful, too. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneFeb 26, 2023
Femme fascinatingly taps into the radical possibilities of the sartorial as narrative device, exploring the tabooed nuances of queer subjectivity and muddying the lines between gay and trans in the way that lived experience tends to do. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossFeb 23, 2023
Subtlety proves a scarce commodity as the debuting duo chops at this cautionary tale until its fragile narrative bones are fully exposed, dialogue stripped of any valuable nuance. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloMar 22, 2024
Both Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay do a remarkable job wrestling with their character’s inner and outer conflicts, but so much of “Femme” is about the pain of queer life, that it leaves out its joy. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 23, 2023
Faltering storytelling and sloppy visual technique aside, the pas de deux of tenderness and violence, passivity and aggression between Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay keeps you watching, with both actors mostly overcoming the clichés in the way their characters are conceived. But Femme ends up being less subversive than it seems to think it is. Read full review
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