Emilia Perez (2024)

I'm pretty sure this is a weird experiment perpetrated by the awards system to see if heaping accolades on a pile of trash will work on the audience in a "The Emperor's New Clothes" way. Well, let me join the chorus of those who can see this for what it is.

It's a musical, but the songs are so hyper-specific that they can't be used outside of this story (they're also whatever the opposite of "catchy" is).  The character at the center is a cartel leader who transitions to being a woman, which apparently means she has also transitioned from bad hombre to benevolent nurturer. But, make no mistake! She can still turn scary when it looks like she may lose the children she didn't see for four years after traumatizing them with her "death" and banishment to snowy Switzerland.

What an embarrassing mess.

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