Yahoo Movies MaXXXine debuts with strong Rotten Tomatoes rating after first reviews
MaXXXine lands in cinemas next week and the new horror movie is off to an excellent start with the critics.
The final instalment in Ti West's celebrated trilogy picks up six years after the events of X as Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) heads to Hollywood to become a movie star, while trying to avoid a deadly serial killer.
MaXXXine is released in cinemas on July 5 and after its first reviews, the movie stands at a strong 91% from its first 31 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
That is slightly down on X's 94% and Pearl's 92%, but there's plenty of time for MaXXXine to match or better those scores when more reviews land.
Check out a selection of the first reviews for MaXXXine below:
Inverse
"Maxine becomes both a monster and a mythos by the time the credits roll — and West's final entry into the modern horror canon seamlessly comes to a confident and glorious close, a star immortalised in her bloody triumph of the self."
IndieWire
"If nothing else, the dazzling finale feels like a hyperviolent '80s period piece tailor-made For the Girls. It delivers some of the series' most extreme kills as well as its best uses of glittery costumes, bloody testicles, and feminist subversion for a whirlwind joy ride that doubles as a societal lambasting."
Mashable
"Vibrant in sleaze, satire, and shocking violence, MaXXXine was on the brink of being the best West and Goth have made yet. But a bungled ending leaves a sour taste."
The Independent
"MaXXXine is not a good as Pearl, but it is better than X, which fumbled its hag-horror influences (as exemplified by What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and its vengeful, elderly violence). This film is nasty, funny, and cogent about the era it's set in."
Empire
"Capping an unusual trilogy, MaXXXine is an intense woman-fights-back thriller. Mia Goth's Maxine is what you’d get if the Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster of Taxi Driver were fused in the telepod from The Fly."
The Telegraph
"The style is impeccable. The substance, not so much. Perhaps after Pearl, MaXXXine is simply a victim of heightened expectations, but it has little of its predecessor’s mischief or steely psychological brinksmanship."
MaXXXine is released in cinemas on July 5.
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