Lurid and thought-provoking, Amanda Kramer's poppy conversation starter leaves the audience plenty to ponder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

The horniest film I’ve seen all year.

| Feb 13, 2024

Please Baby Please is an imaginative and visually entrancing feature by Amanda Kramer, who showcases her directorial playfulness and genre-bending antics in full effect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2024

Andrea Riseborough, somehow ageless, always fascinating, is impossible to look away from. She makes Suze both an active participant and a confused, lost observer, opening up a world she never knew existed.

| Nov 30, 2023

It examines gender ideals by reframing the vulnerability that underlies masculinity and the rudeness of femininity, thereby embracing queer identities and the LGBTQ+ community. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2023

Riseborough remains unparalleled as a performer, easily in competition for the title of best of her generation.

| Jun 15, 2023

This is a film that’s queer in every sense of the word, and it’s one wild ride indeed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2023

Transgression is the lifeblood of Please Baby Please, running through the film’s form in its conflation of the surreal and the grounded.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 6, 2023

If you’re a fan of films where the creators think subtext is for cowards then you’re on the right road, but such glibness inevitably underplays the real savvy of Please Baby Please, which surely deserves our attention.

| Apr 5, 2023

Kramer has conceived a daring film, appealing to a vibrant mise-en-scene that allows the viewer to experience the spectrum of youth rebellion and explore the psychedelia of gangs during the second half of the 20th century. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 3, 2023

Highly theatrical, with dreamy dance routines and a jazz-infused score, the film's deranged chaos of deliberate artifice and heart-on-sleeve emotions are an acquired taste.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2023

It’s monumentally tedious, devoid of humour and, worst of all, sanctimonious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 30, 2023

Demi is a marvel, Riseborough has never been better or scarier, and we wouldn’t have missed Cole Escola sobbing Since I Don’t Have You, through mascara, on the phone to an unseen rotter, for all the fetishwear in Cruising.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2023

One hell of a glossy, sexy, pastiche-fueled ride.

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

The film feels over-determined and self-satisfied.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2023

The melodrama and comedy are strikingly modern and with an edge that cuts its roots in Douglas Sirk and Billy Wilder to something strange and surreal, but these things added together don’t coalesce.

| Mar 26, 2023

Aimed squarely at fans of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar, the arty oddity “Please Baby Please” is the kind of cinematic fetish object that should entice anyone who shares director Amanda Kramer’s particular fascinations.

| Mar 3, 2023

It evinces a real musicality, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a musical. Andrea Riseborough shows her chameleonic range vamping around...

| Dec 23, 2022

Imagine a talk-y mash-up of Rocky Horror Picture Show and West Side Story by way of Ed Wood, and you might come close to approximating Amanda Kramer’s theatrical uber-indie Please Baby Please.

| Original Score: 3/5 stars | Dec 16, 2022

Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please nearly buries itself in eccentricities. It stays afloat due to the commitment of its performers, a clear-eyed vision and a playful atmosphere that imbues the screen with rich colors and dizzying vibrancy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2022