MaXXXine

...West creates a visual and aural collage of Tinseltown at a specific time — when moralists targeted heavy-metal music and franchise horror sequels as the tools of Satan.

Standing at the end of a multi-generational Möbius strip for women’s autonomy, “MaXXXine” concludes its saga interrogating why anyone would punish a brat for surviving in style.

...a horribly watchable Hollywood tale of sex, death, fear and gore.

Standing at the end of a multi-generational Möbius strip for women’s autonomy, “MaXXXine” concludes its saga interrogating why anyone would punish a brat for surviving in style.

The pleasures are in watching Maxine navigate through the bloodshed to the denouement she deserves, and watching West cut into the seductive allure of cinema.