Review: Elisabeth Moss galvanizes in the brilliant punk psychodrama 'Her Smell'
You may not see a better movie with a worse title this year than "Her Smell."
Scratch that, actually; the title's perfect. It's the name of the rock club where we meet the pop supernova that is Becky Something (a mesmerizing Elisabeth Moss), who fronts an all-female punk band called Something She. But it also captures something of the acrid effect she has on anyone who crosses her path. Becky is more than just another over-indulged, over-liquored celebrity narcissist; she's a bad mood, a toxic atmosphere, a cloud of rage, self-pity and unbridled malice that comes rolling off the screen in thick, annihilating waves. In a word, she reeks.
That's not an orthodox recommendation, to be sure, and this movie - a blistering, exhilarating eruption of
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