Hellcat Review

Review of Hellcat (2025) by screenqueeen: 👎 2/5

11/100

the promised conflict of the film devolves into a masculine pissing contest. Bodell places his tortured women behind the driven and determined men who effortlessly wrest any hard-earned agency away for themselves. Lena's "shocking" reveal of her pregnancy early on in the film serves as the script's curveball, threatening a grossly realized deus ex machina in an exercise of misogynistic overkill. on paper this may have the makings of a true festival darling but its guts are pretty damned ugly, and no amount of ephemera pontificated beyond their immediate consumable value can balance that out.

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