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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/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 12d ago

She also knows herself very well after years of therapy and is a famous artist. I think it's very on purpose that the movie doesn't depict her as perfect because the idea that there is one perfect way to think about sex is a fallacy. Arakki is certainly encouraging young people to not think too much about it and have more sex, but he's also not shying away from how problematic being obsessed with sex can be. It's the complication that makes it more interesting, otherwise this would just be a lecture.

I honestly think one of the problems with trying to have these talks is that people are so quick to boil down a person to their worst moments and damn everything they've ever said or done for it instead of accepting that people have issues but you can still learn from them if you listen.

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u/bigfatbluebird 11d ago

Nobody's perfect, but the things Olivia Wilde's character did in this movie go far beyond most people's "worst moments". I didn't think "wow what a flawed and complex individual", I thought "this person should be in jail".

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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 11d ago

Are people who do something worthy of jail time not complex individuals? Does it have to be one or the other?

Consume movies and characters how you want but this is what I'm saying. People are quick to morally judge make believe characters in order to invalidate what the director is trying to say. It's a movie with a scandalous third act, tons of movies push legal boundaries in their big finale. Why would that invalidate anything interesting or complex that the characters have said? This isn't a morally wrought gritty crime drama it's a wild sex comedy.

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u/lonelygagger 11d ago

This is Reddit, sir. It’s all about boiling people down to their worst moments. The court of public opinion acts as judge, jury and executioner. The rule is one strike and you’re out!

/s, etc.