There have been plenty of movies about self-destructive rock musicians, but none quite like this.

| Mar 10, 2020

There's a claustrophobic, almost airless feeling to this -- it's almost suffocating, but it's always compelling.

| Sep 27, 2019

You won't forget it. You can't forget it.

| Original Score: A | May 3, 2019

We basically don't get any escape [from Becky Something]. We are either right up in her face, with those close-ups and handheld camera, or they're employing a steadicam that follows her around as she stalks the rooms and corridors backstage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2019

Stretched over 135 minutes and overloaded with shout-to-the-rafters confrontations, Her Smell has too much talking and squawking, and not enough rocking and rolling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 19, 2019

Movies about self-destructing rock stars, whether based on real idols or centering on wholly invented characters, are often hackneyed. But Perry's pulsating, quicksilver film, boosted by Moss's jagged magnetism, vivifies the genre.

| Apr 19, 2019

Moss is endlessly fascinating, basking in the liberating comfort of surrendered glamour. She inhabits every cranny and crevice of the character's despairing, terrified, burnt-out, blasted self.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2019

The genius of Her Smell is that it's not about Becky. It's about the chaos she causes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 18, 2019

You can quibble with this movie's title, but it gives redemption stories a good name.

| Apr 18, 2019

But by opening at rock bottom, instead of the heights, Perry makes it difficult to care about Becky's fall from, and slow crawl back to, grace.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2019

If the writer-director has a gift, it's for orchestrating caustic confrontation, and for a while, that's mainly what Her Smell offers, impressively and at length.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 12, 2019

New material from the challenging auteur, one that reflects a deeper sense of maturity, displayed mainly in the idea of the possibility of redemption.

| Apr 12, 2019

Despite all the claustrophobic airlessness of Her Smell, you won't be able to quit it if you stay with its jumbled dialogues and dizzying pace long enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2019

We're getting a portrait - albeit flawed - of a woman, disintegrating before our very eyes.

| Apr 11, 2019

Her Smell is a journey through hell and back that feels more gratifying for being difficult.

| Apr 11, 2019

A fame-to-flameout movie that leaves scorch marks on the brain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2019

For all its yelling and theatrics, Her Smell can't even be bothered to figure out where the outlet is.

| Apr 11, 2019

Moss, so perfectly calibrated in everything from her career-making role on Mad Men to her small but brilliant turn in Jordan Peele's Us, does the best she can with the material here, though it never quite rises up to meet her.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 11, 2019

Her Smell is an uneven movie, occasionally dipping into clichés. But Moss's performance works...

| Apr 11, 2019

Elisabeth Moss is a primal, predatory force in "Her Smell," a female-centric spin on the classic debauched rock star story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2019