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Pearl

2022
Horror
1h 43m
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Rated 12 Dec 2022
78
85th
Puts the SIK in Douglas Sirk. I wish that worked better. Five and a half minutes btw. That’s how long the last take during Mia Goth’s monologue at the end lasts. Five and a half minutes.
Rated 23 Oct 2022
90
92nd
Ti West takes a whatever villain from X and turns her into an actual monster. Spooky and uncomfortable, making a lurid Shirley Temple looking movie is 100x more interesting than another 70s/80s thing - I hoot while pacing around now for Maxxxine
Rated 19 Sep 2022
90
67th
Mia Goth is fantastic and despite a slow start this movie descends into insanity in the final act. The Wizard of Oz meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Rated 21 Sep 2022
70
82nd
Mia Goth. That's pretty much it. But I have 400 words left so might as well use them. This doesn't quite match the sheer awesomeness of X for me, but it comes close. It's the perfect balance of deeply unnerving, darkly comedic, and brutal in the gore department. Never before have I so deeply hated a protagonist who I simultaneously sympathized with to some extent. Supporting players are good, the writing is really good, the technical stuff looked on point. This delivered. Bring on Maxxxine.
Rated 14 Nov 2022
80
90th
Harley Quinn, eat your heart out.
Rated 02 Dec 2022
93
75th
Well this was unexpectedly awesome! I liked X, appreciated X, didn’t love X. It was really well made, but I just thought this was an even better movie. Very original, led by Mia Goth in one of the very best performances I’ve probably ever seen in a movie. She never felt too over-the-top or over-acted. She and West wrote a very compelling story around this character. It’s also just really well made. I loved the directing, colors, production, score and tension. Very effective use of $1.5B!
Rated 21 Sep 2022
80
68th
I wasn't sure how much I really liked this until Mia Goth delivered a long monologue straight into the camera that really tied the film together and made it feel like a prequel to "X". I like "X" better, but this is one strange, daring film with a really great performance from Goth. It's her film all the way, right through to the incredible last shot that sustains through the closing credits.
Rated 01 Dec 2022
80
73rd
Remember that one time that Mia Goth won "best smile" at the the "awards-I-made-up" the same year a movie called Smile came out.
Rated 02 Dec 2022
73
82nd
Pretty much the only instance I can think of where the original film detracts from a prequel/sequel? Knowing what happens to Pearl in X is a bit of a letdown. Also the idea of her husband walking into that end scene and being like "Yep, that's the woman I'm going to stay married to on this farm for the next fifty years" is hilarious.
Rated 08 Jan 2023
79
73rd
I love that this exists, and I think it's so cool that Mia Goth got involved as a writer and producer for this one, her first credit in both categories. Her performance is fantastic and elevates everything around it. Give her an Oscar nomination you cowards
Rated 25 Sep 2022
85
85th
(Reviewing in full in conjunction with X) Ti West bursts back onto my radar with a pair of splendidly-put-together thrillers - and I'm actually happy that I watched these in timeline order rather than by release. West is really talented, aptly juxtaposing Pearl's beautiful delusions with the real world she's living in, and setting an immaculate tone. More so in Pearl than in X, I love the use of the continuous shot gimmick. The characters could be more compelling, but Mia Goth is excellent.
Rated 26 Oct 2022
70
41st
Like this more than X. Still suffers from trying a little too hard, though not nearly as hard as X. There are some silly parts, but mostly you're able to just enjoy Goth put in a great performance, without the baggage of X (old people just not being scary in it). Is it scary itself? Nah. But it's more psychologically rich than X. I'm not enthused by this franchise but this is a decent step up in quality.
Rated 30 Oct 2022
80
83rd
There are so many ways this could have failed; quick, name your top five horror prequels. Instead they nail it. West gives Goth a perfect stage - equal parts horror, golden-age Hollywood and modern realism, a long list of dreams we know she'll never fulfil - and she delivers the performance of a lifetime.
Rated 15 Nov 2022
8
71st
Better than X, but I suppose they pair together well.
Rated 04 Feb 2023
88
87th
The whole industry whining about Riseborough but we’re all here forgetting Goth. Where were we when she needed us? She had a 5 minute long uninterrupted monologue in a genre film of all things; her following another character wailing an axe is one of the most beautiful and/or disturbing long shots in a great while. This could be a double with Leave Her to Heaven or Axe!, both are equally valid. Pearl danced with All Quiet on the Western Front and this was the better picture.
Rated 11 Mar 2023
4
43rd
Interesting, but outside of appreciation for the old school technicolor look and Mia Goth’s performance probably not something I’d watch again.
Rated 18 May 2023
85
94th
Instant horror classic with an epic performance for the ages by a masterful Goth.
Rated 21 Oct 2022
70
48th
Loved the saturation and color, Mia Goth gave a great performance, but I found it a bit boring.
Rated 21 Oct 2022
70
93rd
Terrific film with a terrific lead performance by Mia Goth. It's manic in all the right ways, loved it.
Rated 23 Oct 2022
70
80th
David Corenswet is my bae now.
Rated 30 Oct 2022
80
75th
A feast for my eyes. X was good; but this is great. I am now onboard the Mia Goth hype train.
Rated 30 Oct 2022
80
85th
Mia Goth is such a talent. While Pearl in itself has an interesting origin story with a magical mixture of Technicolor Wizard of Oz vibes and some creepy psychological horror with a descent to madness unfolding in front of our eyes, it's her acting that really sells this whole thing. Also, that constant red vibe was brilliant. No ruby red of those magical slippers will ever manage to transport the girl into the world she wishes to belong in, so that's how we get... Pearl.
Rated 05 Nov 2022
78
90th
There is no reason for Pearl to be as good as it is. Less horror and more of a drama about an outcast who finds life's small pleasures in all the wrong places. Pearl's decent into madness hits so many right notes. X is a master class in the slasher genre, while Pearl hits a different tone and manages to match and even exceed X's success. Ti West's two gems have been the triumph of the 2022 Halloween season for me.
Rated 12 Nov 2022
79
74th
As with X pearl attempts to dissect the power movies and in particular the sexual nature of cinema has had on the American psyche. On escapist nature allowed by Hollywood and all the demons that attempt to exploit those dreams. A country still trying to reckon with a new generation who doesn’t know if their lovers are coming home to them. The bubbling sexual tensions of a new America post the Great War. Pearl is Janet Gaynor in street angel. She’s Duvall in the shining. She’s Rowlands
Rated 13 Nov 2022
88
93rd
Certamente é melhor que a "bagunça" do primeiro filme. Aqui eles dão cara, corpo e alma para a vilã. O ritmo inicial peca um pouco, mas faz parte e quando engrena, vai com tudo. Gostei bastante do monólogo no final e a cena após ele.
Rated 14 Dec 2022
70
69th
i'm just trying to be a better person. my name is pearl.
Rated 20 Dec 2022
95
91st
As the layers begin to peel back on Pearl's fragile psyche we are treated to a fully unhinged performance from Mia Goth that allows Pearl to become one of the most frightening characters ever created for the big screen. The violence is more deranged in this film because it happens to provide context for later events but it feels more raw and unfiltered during this film. That's because the setting is not yet decayed, the life looks idyllic until you close the doors and the horror unleashes.
Rated 03 Jan 2023
75
41st
While West is still doing something different w/ slasher films, the unique stuff in this prequel is mostly superficial - unlike X. The '30's references & visuals are definitely unusual, but, unlike X, the killer's motivation - to be famous- is common in horror. If his theme was to also show that H'wood creates problematic desires, the killer's too nutty for it to work. Other things would've likely set her off. Goth is amazing, but 1 too-long monologue seems to exist to showboat for an Oscar.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
82
81st
Holy shit. The period setting is a thin veil over a searing indictment of our own isolated, dysfunctional, and dangerously escapist times. On the shortlist of the best prequels ever, and maybe the first one that's better than the movie that spawned it.
Rated 06 Feb 2023
75
79th
The last shot is one of the funniest last shots i can recall having seen. Mia Goth is incredible!
Rated 21 May 2023
78
79th
More like Mia Gothic, yeah got 'em.
Rated 28 Jun 2023
8
84th
“I hate what it feels like to be me and not you.”
Rated 17 Sep 2022
69
18th
Not sure I liked the mashup pastiche of horror with technicolor melodrama.
Rated 20 Sep 2022
40
79th
Though he does offer a few clever nods to X—the farm’s adjoining pond still has its hungry reptilian resident—West doesn’t treat Pearl like the typical prequel where the look and tone is integrated with the original film. Just as X has the grimy texture of a porn-chic ‘70s print that had spent decades in the canisters, Pearl echoes the unnaturally vibrant color of the three-strip era, when everything could be made to look like a fantasy. Even the homicidal can dare to dream.
Rated 22 Sep 2022
40
38th
Felt more like a TV episode than a movie, like "Tales from the Crypt" or something. The story did not justify the outing to the theatre. "X" was a lot better.
Rated 06 Oct 2022
5
81st
I think Gena Rowlands gets brought up a little too much in some circles whenever a b is acting hysterical, but Goth’s performance is the first in a long time that I’ve felt it all coming from the same place. Understanding loneliness, anger and defeat and channeling that into their performance.
Rated 23 Oct 2022
84
80th
2022'de #IzlediğimFilmler ; 279. Pearl (2022) Kesinlikle X'ten çok daha sevdim. Mia Goth döktürmüş, özellikle monolog sahnesini geri alıp tekrar izledim
Rated 24 Oct 2022
55
43rd
A bit more relentless than X, but it's still written gentrified horror all over it. At least Mia Goth delivers the performance of her life -- the monologue, the frozen smile in the last shot.
Rated 26 Oct 2022
40
3rd
Killsducklolfeedsgator+1918+lolfucksthescarecrow+OGpornlol+highschoolmonologue+lmaohersmile-tears
Rated 26 Oct 2022
82
17th
I wanted to like it and Ti West definitely has a weird, mad vision that he executes, but the pacing is inconsistent. The film does get going with its explosive final act, but it takes a little too long to get where it's going. On the positive side, Mia Goth gives a perfectly unhinged lead performance as the deluded murderer Pearl and somehow manages to make her character both terrifying and sympathetic.
Rated 31 Oct 2022
60
51st
Five minutes in and I am actually cringing due to the terrible accent and acting from Mia Goth, I know a lot of people are loving Mia Goth but I just don't get it, she's been pretty much the low point of every movie I've seen her in. While the first film felt like a black comedy this felt like a straight-up parody of both '40s/'50s movies and horror films.
Rated 01 Nov 2022
80
68th
Made me want to re-watch X. Mia Goth is outstanding
Rated 02 Nov 2022
80
64th
Normalmente não temos mulheres como grandes psicopatas icônicos em séries de horror para cinema, acho que a Pearl tem um grande potencial nisso, tem todo o século XX de matança pra explorar, com a vantagem que começou pelo final e já sabemos como tudo terminará. Já rendeu dois filmes bastante sólidos e bastante interessantes de se ver, especialmente pelas homenagens rendidas neles. Só venha. BlurayRip RARBG.
Rated 06 Nov 2022
10
1st
Absolute rubbish, a tedious test of my patience to watch.
Rated 12 Nov 2022
60
47th
Chilling and misery-filled the whole way.
Rated 12 Nov 2022
60
37th
Mia Goth gives a hell of a performance and I do love how this film embraces the classic technicolor aesthetic just as X embraced the retro porno. But, it's not a great prequel to X. That is, knowing how Pearl turns out in X, none of the thrills of this film really grabbed me like they might have otherwise.
Rated 22 Nov 2022
10
4th
It isn't tense, scary or particularly grisly, so why am I watching this prequel to a movie that was crap to begin with? The writing is abysmal, there's no one to root for, the character is shit (and tearfully tries to emotionally blackmail us with an "all i really wanted was to be loved" speech after murdering a bunch of people), the world-building is a joke, it's honestly boring AF in every respect. Ti West actually made decent movies up until The Sacrament - after that, nothing. It's a shame.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
67
19th
The first two acts of this movie are so, so, SO bad. The dialogue and performances go so far past the clearly-intended level of winking camp and end up as terrible caricature. Then the third act all of a sudden is fantastic! Dramatic and sad and creepy and even some actual good camp. I don’t understand what the fuck was going on with this movie lmao it’s like West and Goth created very very stupid clones of themselves to make and star in the first hour
Rated 11 Dec 2022
82
74th
Liked this a lot more than X. Some surprisingly funny moments and just a good build up and ending.
Rated 23 Dec 2022
70
54th
I got caught in a kind of catch-22 with this movie, where I definitely enjoyed it less because I had so much spoiled by the trailer. However, if it hadn't been for the trailer, I wouldn't have had interest in seeing the movie in the first place. Still, the themes and social commentary made it worth seeing, even if I felt like I already knew every major event that was going to happen.
Rated 28 Dec 2022
50
23rd
"Pearl" doesn't benefit from focusing on one character, especially one that bears a lot of similarities to Maxine from "X", thus rendering the themes repetitive at best and superfluous at worst. Additionally, it retains the predictable plot beats of its predecessor but without the meaty, intriguing premise; in the end, the two are bridged awkwardly (if at all) as Pearl's arc is incomplete (not to mention Howard's). However, Mia Goth is very good and her one-take scenes are really well done.
Rated 30 Jan 2023
80
86th
If MaXXXine does as well as X and Pearl, Ti West will have built the best horror trilogy of the 21st century. I fell in love with the first two movies and I can't stop thinking about them.
Rated 26 Feb 2023
75
64th
a neta da maria gladys puxou o talento da avó
Rated 09 Mar 2023
7
47th
"Pearl" is a riveting character piece that explores the sad and maligned worldview that turns a person to such acts of cruelty. It may not be as ecstatic to revel in the detailed world as its predecessor "X", but it is still an alluring and compelling spectacle of violence with an engrossing central performance.
Rated 17 Mar 2023
79
41st
acceptable for a slasher movie in 2023
Rated 30 Mar 2023
65
63rd
a nice foundational piece in the series without the thrills of X
Rated 08 Apr 2023
5
40th
Good aesthetics, interesting themes. However, the more you think about this movie and its themes apparent depth, the more shallow it ends up looking. Don't get me wrong, it's a really good movie, and the Pearl speech towards the end is an acting reel highlight, I guess I just don't have the disposition required to enjoy this kind of movie as much as others.
Rated 13 Apr 2023
75
51st
As such a big fan of X, I realise now I didn't feel the urge for a back-story for this particular woman. But now it's here, it comes across as a small film (focusing on such a specific time and person), though one injected with a very involved style that's evocative of cinema in a pastiche way, yet still harbouring an underlining menace, achieved through sequences of fancy or the grotesque, along with Mia Goth to make it all the more memorable.
Rated 24 May 2023
90
52nd
I'm kind of torn on this one. It is really well made and a great character study, but it's not much of a horror. So think of it as a suspenseful and dramatic period piece (with some violence) and you should be pleased.
Rated 20 Jun 2023
84
63rd
A pretty "whatever" movie that skyrockets once the gears starts turning and becomes the the underdog of the century. Mia Goth can monologue to me for two hours and I would still love it.
Rated 07 Jul 2023
66
55th
Plot 10/20 Fiction 12/20 Casting/Acting 18/20 Worldbuilding 14/20 Entertainment 12/20
Rated 30 Jul 2023
95
96th
I love this movie so goddamn much.
Rated 29 Aug 2023
48
45th
I was in the winter of my life, and the scarecrows I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell asleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them... I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me that I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing due north. No fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. And if I said I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying... Whoops, sorry, wrong monologue.
Rated 03 Oct 2023
70
70th
Having not been a fan of Ti West’s early work, I’m glad to see him continue to improve. X, while not my favorite, was easily the most I enjoyed his work at that point. Pearl is really unique, using the time period in every way possible. The score, color grading, editing, everything helps it feel authentic. Mia Goth is also a rising… star, ironically enough. It’s still not a film I’d rewatch, but I appreciate it enough that I’m glad I saw it. Would like to see more horror utilize drama like this.
Rated 03 Oct 2023
75
78th
Ce rôle va tellement bien à Mia Goth, que ça en devient presque flippant. Pearl est une énigme, rêveuse, soucieuse, curieuse, et vicieuse. Pearl est aussi une malade mentale, et le film avance par petites touches de folies, plein de couleurs et de poésie. Bien meilleur que X, il vient en revanche lui donner un souffle supplémentaire. J'aurais préféré revoir Pearl à la place de Maxine. Oh, et David Corenswet est très sexy et sera parfait en Superman.
Rated 16 Oct 2023
80
77th
what would you do if you were mitsy?
Rated 11 Nov 2023
70
70th
Reads like an academic essay about gender and horror fed to a chat bot, but this simulakra isn't without a charm
Rated 25 Dec 2023
60
63rd
okay movie
Rated 17 Mar 2024
62
64th
A lot better than X, but still missing that certain something that would make it really interesting, there's just no real tension!

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