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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 14

  A masterfully crafted exercise in unbearable cinematic tension; an increasingly distressing work of psychological horror; an intensely-beautiful-and-at-the-same-time-intensely-grotesque exploration of co-dependence and its consequences; an isolated, slowly-ticking bomb seemingly approaching denotation; and other hyperbolic sentiments about this film that I am quite obviously and ferociously attempting to convince you to watch.

  Elisabeth Moss is,
  very much indeed,
  the Queen of the Earth.

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  Review by Aaron ★★★★ 28

  Part of Hoop-Tober 2015

  “What?” “I literally didn’t say anything.” “Exactly.”

  “What’s it like, having all the answers all the time to everything?” asks Virginia (Katherine Waterston) of Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), her ostensible best friend, during a summer trip to Virginia’s family’s lake house in upstate New York. It calls to mind a similar statement (for Virginia’s words, though structured syntactically as interrogation, are unmistakably declarative) made to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) in James L. Brooks’ wonderful romantic comedy-drama Broadcast News: “It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.” Yet the difference in response is illuminating—Jane bemoans that it is awful, confirming her boundless self-confidence but diluting it…

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  Review by Ty Landis

  Katherine Waterston's failed attempt to get the lights off in her bedroom by throwing a pillow at the light switch is one of the realest things I've ever seen.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★

  there she goes again miss scientology constantly raising the bar for us all

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 6

  I get the feeling I wasn't supposed to find this as funny as I did.

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★ 1

  There is nothing on this Earth more evil than a female friendship.

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  Review by Blain LaMotta ★★★★★ 16

  With Queen of Earth, caustic auteur Alex Ross Perry stakes his claim as the most essential voice in the American independent scene at the moment. He is the king of narcissism and disenchantment, fearlessly exposing the neuroses of the privileged to make them a tangible and empathetic presence. Human nature knows no boundaries, it doesn't prejudice against anyone. The claustrophobic and depressive state of this specific motion picture is ingeniously realized by isolating the characters to a place cut off from outside influence, a place of tranquility. At least on the surface it seem that way, but can you really escape your problems? Sure, you can escape from the physical presence of them, yet they linger in the imagination, a…

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  Review by Ale ★★★½

  "Throughout the film Virginia (Katherine Waterston) is seen reading books by Ike Zimmerman. This is the fictional author played by Jonathan Pryce in director/writer Alex Ross Perry's previous film Listen Up Philip"

  So this is part of the ARPCU (Alex Ross Perry's Cinematic Universe)

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  Review by Lucy ★★★

  this was... A Lot

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  Review by ian curtis ★★★★

  You click your tongue and you revel in the affairs of others. You are worthless. You don't know anything about me.

  PAYBACK, BITCH!

  Catherine, who lived in a perfect world with nothing to worry about but the two loves of her life (Father and boyfriend) finds herself at rock bottom when she ends up losing both at once and decides spending time with her friend Virginia, which she was going through a long time ago, and Catherine didn't notice it that summer because she was so busy "living her perfect life," a phrase repeatedly said by Virginia, the thing gets complicated when she comes back in next summer with your unmanageable problems.

  The irony comes when Catherine, who was on…

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★ 10

  At once overwrought and inert, Queen of Earth essentially cancels itself out. Writer-director Alex Ross Perry has made a psychological drama that is both a self-conscious homage and a frustrating dither, one that fails to make use of an amazing actress in the (non) process.

  Full review here.

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  Review by Willow Maclay 3

  No Grade

  This is maybe amazing, but I don't think that will reveal itself until multiple viewings later. Completely fucking ludicrous in some ways, and I think that's the intended effect. Playing for the Apartment trilogy is absolutely obvious, but since Perry considers those to be comedies he makes this as bizarre as possible, while still keeping things relatively grounded. There's a sense of mystery about the proceedings going on here that at first recalls persona/swap movies like 3 Women and Persona, but it's a tad too vague to ever really tap into that, because there is no burning the frame moment here or a parade of dissolves so to speak. Everything is muddled in this could be breakdown of…