Emilia Pérez
A cartel musical about a trans woman. It went badly.
Included because you will be asked about it, not because we recommend it.
- 2024
- 132 min
- 71% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 5.4 on IMDb
- #drama
- #trans
- #new
Our take
A Mexican cartel boss transitions and attempts to atone by finding the country’s disappeared. Jacques Audiard shot it on a Paris soundstage with a mostly non-Mexican cast, and it went from a Cannes prize and an enormous Oscar campaign to one of the most comprehensively rejected awards films in years.
The objections are worth knowing: Mexican critics on the depiction of a country the film barely visited, trans writers on a script that treats transition as a moral do-over, and everyone on the songs. Karla Sofía Gascón’s nomination was historic and the surrounding mess overshadowed it entirely. Watch it to have the argument first-hand.
Where to watch Emilia Pérez
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 2.5 out of 5 rainbows. Included because you will be asked about it, not because we recommend it.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 71%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
- IMDb — 5.4 out of 10 from 92,044 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 70 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 6.4 out of 10 from 2,005 votes, refreshed daily.
The plot, officially
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.