Queens of Drama
Altered Innocence | Release Date: April 18, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesMay 22, 2025
The juiciness of the storyline overflows into a series of rushing strawberry rapids that will carry you away. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comZachary LeeApr 18, 2025
It’s a dizzying, life-affirming anthem about how it’s never too late to find your way home in the arms of your lover, even if you may have lost your way. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid OpieApr 18, 2025
This is the kind of formative underground movie you could pledge your allegiance to for life, especially if you’re coming across it at a certain age for the very first time. Read full review
75
The Film StageAlistair RyderApr 18, 2025
The film might not be set within the current moment, but Langlois always remains attuned to it, with his story about parasocial fandoms and the pressure they put on artists effortlessly transcending its period setting. You’ll have the songs stuck in your head for weeks, too. Read full review
70
VarietyManuel BetancourtMay 6, 2025
The only way to enjoy Queens of Drama is to surrender to its excesses. Which explains why it works so perfectly as a bold lesbian melodrama best told in pop and punk numbers. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJames ScottApr 24, 2025
Queens delights in its inspirations, saturates its toxic love story with the markings of an era just now getting its resurgence. Read full review
60
The New York TimesLisa KennedyApr 17, 2025
With playful visual flourishes, a willfully garish palette and winks galore (including one to the French feminist writer Monique Wittig), Langlois’s debut has stylistic ambition for days. But it’s not as genre-fluent as “Love Lies Bleeding” and “I Saw the TV Glow,” or as swoon inducing as its volatile couple deserves. Read full review
50
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganApr 18, 2025
Ultimately, first-timer Langlois is unable to find a discipline within the excess that might keep these Queens on course over feature length. In fairness, his shorts were also over-long, so this won’t be a deterrent to his core crowd. Read full review
50
Screen RantHannah HoolihanApr 18, 2025
The film did not nail it in many regards, but it is a truly entertaining tribute to queer pop and obsessed fandoms. Queens of Drama is, in the end, a delightful hot mess. Read full review
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