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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenEvery beautiful, resonant image in writer-director Alex Ross Perry's film is fraught with neurotic, diaphanous riddles.
- 100Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekQueen of Earth is also a semi-comedy, often funny in an intentionally bleak way. And that, besides Moss, is what makes it work.
- 91The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezPerry’s observations of complicated female dynamics are extremely perceptive and the emotional specificity of alienation, disenchantment, and mistrust is wonderfully precise.
- 90VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAn unnerving, acidly funny work that fosters an acute air of dread without ever fully announcing itself as a horror movie.
- 83The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIn Queen of Earth, writer-director Alex Ross Perry—who does snippy black comedy better than just about anyone else on the current American indie landscape—dials down the humor that has defined his work to this point, and turns up the queasy psychological currents that have always gurgled underneath it.
- 80CineVuePatrick GambleCineVuePatrick GambleThe performances of both Moss and Waterston are tremendous, filling the empty spaces of the frame with a suffocating mist of pain and suffering.
- [A] delicately calibrated portrait of dissolution which points to the versatility of writer/director Alex Ross Perry.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThroughout the film Moss traverses an astonishing range of emotions, from bliss to complete mental disintegration. She is fascinating to watch even when the film turns into a frustrating head-scratcher.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisMs. Waterston, a Modigliani in motion and often in black, easily holds your attention, but it is Ms. Moss, with her intimate expressivity, who annihilates you from first tear to last crushing laugh.