A volatile, sensuous revenge film in which the body and its desires don’t lie.

| Sep 17, 2024

Within that funhouse mirror of an erotic-thriller premise, “Femme” proves to be a gorgeously mounted meditation on queer and queered performance.

| Apr 17, 2024

As a thriller it absolutely works, but as a film that speaks to a very real thing, it's even better.

| Apr 5, 2024

The uncompromising drama wrings your emotions dry and challenges your own ideas of what is right and just.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2024

This queer thriller avoids predictability and masterfully explores masculinity, ethics, and identity.

| Mar 22, 2024

Both Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay do a remarkable job wrestling with their character’s inner and outer conflicts, but so much of “Femme” is about the pain of queer life, that it leaves out its joy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2024

The film avoids a cut-and-dried triumphalism for something more slippery and, perhaps, more meaningful, too...

| Mar 21, 2024

The film’s outsides, all darkness and furtive lighting, seem to pour out of the characters’ insides, where pockets of trauma live in their own self-erected shadows.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 20, 2024

Revenge is rarely a tidy business. But Femme, a savagely sexy queer erotic thriller, explores just how messily complex retribution can be.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2023

Sexual politics and genre smarts collide in this gripping London-set drama...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2023

George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett utterly thrill in this sexually charged, suspense-filled watch. Don’t let this one pass you by.

| Dec 1, 2023

Femme is a staccato, fresh revenge thriller worth watching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2023

Femme is a really well-worked-through story with tense developments and reversals; it keeps you on the edge of your seat and the outstanding performances from Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay have delicacy, subtlety and depth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2023

Femme is brave, fierce and unpredictable, and unquestionably one of the real must-see films of 2023.

| Jul 31, 2023

Both the central performances are wonderful, even if it leaves you wondering exactly how the revenge will shape up...

| Feb 25, 2023

Murky morality abounds in the exhilarating Femme. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that this cat-and-mouse game takes such intriguing turns.

| Feb 22, 2023

Debuting directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping bring plenty of provocative ideas about queer power dynamics and different forms of drag to the table. But the result is disappointingly sluggish, its payoff ineffectual.

| Feb 22, 2023

[A] stylish, commendably uncompromising fusion of genre fireworks and measured, thoughtful character study.

| Feb 22, 2023

Subversive, unsettling and sexually charged.

| Feb 22, 2023