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Emilia Pérez

Name: Emilia Pérez
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 2024-08-21
Duration: 132 min

Passion has a new name.

20242h 12mcritics 6.4/10

Drama Thriller

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

starring Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz

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“With stellar songs by French singer Camille, a highly original score by Clément Ducol, and striking choreography by Damien Jalet, Emilia Pérez shifts effortlessly from musical extravagances to a gritty underworld milieu.”
James Mottram, Total Film · 100
“The cast rises to match a huge emotional register culminating in literal and figurative explosions. Audiard’s book reimagines the musical halfway between heated drama and song. Choreography, cinematography, and design equally lean into his Sprechstimme innovations.”
Tara Brady, The Irish Times · 100
“The songs are often exquisite, the duets heartbreaking. The performances are trophy bait, Saldaña’s especially. And the go-for-broke direction belies the notion that a septuagenarian like Audiard should be making movies of autumnal wisdom. This is a vivid, high-energy film, one of the year’s best.”
Kevin Maher, The Times · 100
“An audacious and absurdly entertaining genre-hopping musical thriller set in Mexico, Emilia Pérez tells the tale of a drug cartel boss who enlists the talents of a junior lawyer, played by a Zoë Saldaña, to help him undergo gender-affirming surgery, then entangles her in his quest for redemption.”
Liam Lacey, Original-Cin · 100
“You’ve never seen anything in your life like Jacques Audiard’s Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don’t want to miss.”
Peter Travers, ABC News · 100

Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.

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Metacritic48 read

“filme longo demais, infantil e entediante”
Rique254680about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The final scenes are simply memorable, iconic”
clem666about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I absolutely love how the movie offers its last third, based on the integration of the family after a transition”
clem666about 66–100% inread it ↗
“her performance at the beginning of the film, before Emilia transitioned, was very powerful, and at times very emotional”
EllynReviewsabout 0–15% inread it ↗

TMDB4 read

“This jumbled mess of a film can’t make up its mind if it wants to be an edgy musical (given its forgettable songs and original score), a quasi-campy comedy (despite its palpable lack of bona fide humor but with a narrative that’s admittedly frequently laughable), a crime thriller (one that feebly grows ever more pretentious, meandering, implausible and uncompelling with each passing frame) or a treatise on forgiveness and redemption that unapologetically drips with overwrought political co”
Brent Marchantabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Is _Emilia Pérez_ the riskiest movie in years? A Spanish-language musical from a French director, about gendered violence and corruption, starring a transgender actress as a Mexican cartel boss who abandons his family, vanishes into hiding and transitions to become a woman. It's A LOT. And yes, the film has drawn some criticism. But it’s obvious that the soul of _Emilia Pérez_ beats with the daring of a curious artist who prizes emotional authenticity above all else. Could you give up y”
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“How is it a white Irish-American can speak better Spanish than the Spanish speakers in this train wreck? And.... a musical with "penis" and "vagina" as the lyrics as it pushes gender transitions? What we have is an insult to Spanish speakers, an insult that pushes the Latinx concept that most Latino's reject, and then pushes the they/them that lost Kamala the race... so of course it has 13 Academy Award nominations. But the nominations don't mean it's any good. It's crap, it's a really”
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