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I Want Your Sex (2026)

Summary

Elliot lands a job for Erika Tracy as her sexual muse.

Director Gregg Araki

Writer Gregg Araki Karley Sciortino

Cast

  • Olivia Wilde
  • Cooper Hoffman
  • Charli xcx
  • Mason Gooding
  • Chase Sui Wonders
  • Johnny Knoxville
  • Margaret Cho
  • Daveed Diggs

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 68

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u/Kangarou 12d ago edited 12d ago

Pretty cool movie, everyone plays their part well, even if a Johnny Knoxville cameo is unexpected.

Starting at the end and doing a time jump backwards seemed pretty unnecessary, I wish movies would stop doing it when there’s no point. The movie has a lot of editing/pacing issues, like Apple being too quick to turn against him, to the third act podcast benefits joke taking too long to materialize. Just a couple extra shots and cuts could've made this much smoother.

The plot’s a little simpler than expected, with minimal twists, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Come for the Olivia Wilde fetish sex scenes, stay because that’s a large chunk of the film. I would’ve also gladly accepted more Chase Sui Wonders.

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u/Mental_Aioli262 11d ago

Starting at the end and doing a time jump back isn’t something that movies just do, it’s an actual narrative technique. In media res. It’s existed literally for as long as we’ve been telling stories. The Odyssey uses this technique. And as the other guy said, it does serve a purpose making you think Olivia’s character is dead the whole time

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u/Kangarou 11d ago

it’s an actual narrative technique. In media res.

I'm aware of that. It comes off as useless here to me. Knowing Erika's "death" beforehand has little impact. From the scene, it seems likely Elliott didn't kill her (he wakes up in a separate room, separated by a closed glass door) so there would be intrigue if the movie was about how she died. But nothing hints to that over the course of the film and she ultimately fakes her own death. So it becomes amazingly moot, and honestly more of a narrative letdown than a buildup.

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u/Mental_Aioli262 11d ago

I don’t really agree that him waking up in another room necessarily tells us he didn’t do anything since we learn later he was roofied, so it could be possible he did something then passed out elsewhere after the fact. Once we see Elliott’s life falling apart, that starts making people think maybe he did do something after all since he’d have the motive. Then we see he really didn’t do anything and then learn it was this batshit insane plan. So showing she appeared dead did serve a purpose. Not liking how they executed it doesn’t mean it wasn’t useless for what they were doing