Red Rocket

I don't think Simon Rex is in any way to blame for me hating [Mikey]. I think it's a tremendous performance.

Baker’s movies have always been about location, location, location, and Red Rocket is no different.

It is Rexs extraordinary puppy-dog vigour that makes the character tolerable in spite of his repeated appalling decisions.

As well as being filthy, droll and almost unbearably tense, it offers great news for anyone too broke to go to drama school.

A dirty delight. Weird, smart, fantastic and very, very wrong.

Rex actively underplays Mikey’s self-interest and cruelty, so that -- in a way -- the audience becomes an equal target of his manipulation.

For fans of clear and luminous stories of an America unjustly forgotten. [Full review in Spanish]

Baker continues to use the camera as a scalpel... [Full review in Spanish]

It achieves the seemingly impossible: that we empathize with someone who doesn’t deserve sympathy and are amused even when what we’re seeing isn’t quite a laughing matter. Red Rocket, Sean Baker, Simon Rex… all tremendous. [Full review in Spanish]

Cinematic thrillseekers need to see this ASAP.