
Two women go away together. One meets a man that distracts her from being there for her friend. The betrayed friend says, "One day you will need me, and then I won't be there for you." When they next go away together the roles are reversed, the threat becomes reality. But the two situations are not exactly the same - the man in the first scenario was benign, the man in the second scenario is toxic. That and other differences displace the parallel between the two events.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two women go away together. One meets a man that distracts her from being there for her friend. The betrayed friend says, "One day you will need me, and then I won't be there for you." When they next go away together the roles are reversed, the threat becomes reality. But the two situations are not exactly the same - the man in the first scenario was benign, the man in the second scenario is toxic. That and other differences displace the parallel between the two events.
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| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertAlmost subliminally upsetting, "Queen of Earth" touches viewers' primal fears by continually messing with worries embedded in our subconscious. |
| Village 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. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenEvery beautiful, resonant image in writer-director Alex Ross Perry's film is fraught with neurotic, diaphanous riddles. |
| Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMoss is incandescently brilliant as a woman who smiles when she should be unnerved and boils with rage at the most inconsequential slights. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsA lifetime pass for Perry - anything he makes from here on in will be of interest. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin Putman"Queen of Earth" is one of these special, mold-breaking occasions, dipping itself into grotesquery with such sneaky abandon it frequently catches one off-guard in the best way possible. |
| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezPerry’s observations of complicated female dynamics are extremely perceptive and the emotional specificity of alienation, disenchantment, and mistrust is wonderfully precise. |
| Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelMoss and Waterston are incredible, and even though Queen of Earth is purposefully not a readily digestible film, they keep it intensely interesting. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsPerry 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. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoQueen of Earth is terrifying because it is so emotionally unmoored—Catherine is a character with little reason to care about anything or anyone, and Perry and Moss convey the danger of that brilliantly. |