It displays some of the navel-gazing impulses of the mumblecore movement; it's no surprise to see that mumble-originator Joe Swanberg serves as a producer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2016

At times, the style is very mannered but Moss and Waterston give rich and subtle performances as the two feuding friends who provide a twisted reflection of one another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2016

It's a one-note drama of simmering resentment. That note is sustained with impressive conviction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2016

Moss is incandescently brilliant as a woman who smiles when she should be unnerved and boils with rage at the most inconsequential slights.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 30, 2016

A lifetime pass for Perry - anything he makes from here on in will be of interest.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 30, 2016

You have to be in the right mood for it, but this is one of the season's finest films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2016

If you're gonna go hard to the closeup, you're gonna want to work with a face like Elisabeth Moss's.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2015

"Queen of Earth" isn't a laugh riot, not by a long shot. But it is a good movie, and a fascinating study of descent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2015

The film would be nothing but a hollow exercise if its hollowness weren't so hauntingly precise.

| Sep 14, 2015

[Perry's] gracefully disturbing execution conveys a tangible sense of the emotional violence and attrition that can underlie seemingly placid social surfaces...

| Sep 14, 2015

Perry's movie may not be easy to watch, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 10, 2015

This is a lovingly rendered, feel-bad chamber piece chock-full of elliptical psychodrama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 10, 2015

Writer-director Alex Ross Perry conjures such a strong atmosphere around his characters -- and Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston are so powerful in the leads --that one gets sucked into their emotional conflict.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2015

Perry may never make a movie for the masses, whoever they are. But his truest work burrows into weird, blackly comic places few other filmmakers would dare explore.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 3, 2015

For some viewers, the acidity level of Perry's movie will be too high to stomach. For others-anyone who thinks that there are too many warm hugs in Strindberg, for example-"Queen of Earth" awaits.

| Aug 31, 2015

Queen is as much about the bitterness of women as it is about the cruelty of men.

| Aug 30, 2015

The film isn't a thriller per se, but it has the tension and atmosphere of one, only with emotional violence substituting for the physical kind.

| Aug 27, 2015

An open wound, Moss is terrific, yet Queen of Earth feels a touch brittle and precious, like the swirly pink-hued script Perry employs for his end credits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2015

It's rare when a psychological drama gets us into a character's head without tricks or a voiceover. This drama from Alex Ross Perry burrows so deep that it's scary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2015

Anchored by incredible performances from Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston, this is one of the most mesmerizing pictures of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2015