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Things are less luminous inside the home, where Pearl's life of isolation and grave unhappiness is no anomaly: her father ( Matthew Sunderland) is literally in a wheelchair, sick and wordless, and always needs tending to. And while "Pearl" is a monster movie, Goth's character has a villain of her own, her mother Ruth, portrayed with ...

Ryan Gilbey New Statesman Pearl wants so badly to be a star. Part of the film's pleasure lies in realising that Goth already is. Mar 20, 2023 Full Review Wendy Ide Observer (UK) Goth is ...

In "Pearl," which Goth wrote with West, she repeats that role, playing Pearl as a horny and homicidal farmer's daughter. That's not the setup for a dirty joke, and this prequel, set in ...

Image: A24. But what really makes the movie interesting is how it builds on, and adds layers and texture to, its predecessor. X made it clear that Pearl was full of spite and envy, yearning for ...

Pearl: Directed by Ti West. With Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland. In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.

A mutli-layered exploration of womanhood in relation to exposure and performance. Full Review | Original Score: 8.1/10 | Oct 29, 2023. Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily. To make all this work ...

Mia Goth in 'Pearl'. Christopher Moss/A24. But though it shares a cinematic universe with X (and a similar Searchers-like opening shot), Pearl is the superior film, less beholden to West's ...

Mar 17, 2023. With its lurid libidinous action and over-the-top murders, Pearl is a jokey spin-off of a jokey film. Imagine - and we mean this as a compliment - the slasher equivalent of The Naked Gun 2. Offsetting the self-indulgence, Goth sinks her teeth into the goose-killing heroine and spits out all the feathers.

'Pearl' Review: In 'X' Prequel, Mia Goth Shows Where Her Repressed Antihero Went off the Rails 'The House of the Devil' director Ti West expands his porn-shoot slasher movie into a ...

Pearl turns back the clock to tell Pearl's story starting in 1918, when she's a bright-eyed young woman (still played by Mia Goth) with big dreams of making it in the movies. The problem is ...

'Pearl' Review: Ti West and Mia Goth's Unholy Prequel Doesn't Kill West and Goth re-team to tell the bloody story behind the early years of the killer from their "X," diminishing both the ...

Review: Mia Goth is enjoyably demented as 'Pearl' in half-mad/half-funny 'X' prequel. Mia Goth in the movie "Pearl.". The creaky farmstead where horror craftsman Ti West staged his own ...

'Pearl': Disturbed farm girl acts out in fantastically twisted prequel to the horror hit 'X' Mia Goth delivers an electrifying and truly scary performance as a dreamer who's like Dorothy ...

Reviews. Ti West's Pearl is a welcome (and bloody) addition to the X Cinematic Universe ... She is fiercely committed to every frame of Pearl's movie-like fantasy world, which makes her ...

Parents Need to Know. Parents need to know that Pearl is the horror prequel to Ti West's X (2022). It's set decades earlier, in 1918, and tells the story of how the creepy elderly woman in the first movie became a homicidal maniac (Mia Goth plays the character at both ages). It's extremely bloody and gory but well made….

Pearl review: Mia Goth in a horror prequel that marks the birth of a new horror icon Filmmaker Ti West's follow-up to 'X' is a masterclass in finding sympathy for the devil Clarisse Loughrey

A prequel that should've been left on the shelf. Pearl hits theaters on Sept. 16, 2022. Set 60 years before X, Ti West's Pearl — a.k.a. Pearl: The X-traordinary Origin Story — lacks the ...

PEARL (2022) *** 1/2 Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair Sewell. Filmmaker Ti West's prequel to his X is an origin store of the titular farm girl (Goth in an exceptional, Oscar-worthy turn). Set in pandemic stricken 1918 with WWI at its heights the film offers her background strife with the ...

Pearl is a candy-coated piece of rotten fruit. The film, which is director Ti West's prequel to this year's X, trades in the desaturated look and 1970s seediness of its parent film for a lurid ...

A prequel to West's previous picture, X, it was co-written with star Mia Goth during a Covid quarantine period. The result of this meeting of twisted minds is a gloriously demented homage to old ...

Pearl (subtitled An X-traordinary Origin Story) is a 2022 American psychological horror film directed by Ti West, co-written by West and Mia Goth, who reprises her role as the title character, and featuring David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland and Emma Jenkins-Purro in supporting roles. A prequel to X (2022) and the second installment in the X film series, it serves as an origin ...

Pearl Review. Texas, 1918. Pearl (Goth) has married a neighbour in the hope of getting away from the family farm and her oppressive mother (Wright) and incapacitated father (Sunderland). But her ...

September 14, 2022 at 10:01 a.m. EDT. Mia Goth in "Pearl." (Christopher Moss/A24) 4 min. 0. ( 2 stars) If the movie "X" could be described as " Boogie Nights " meets "The Texas ...

Just two months away from the release of "MaXXXine," the previous installment of Ti West's film series is trending on Prime Video in the US. Here, check all the details. Ti West is one of the most ...

Pearl Davis Confronts Lauren Chen on Her Coverage of the Crowder Divorce Drama: With Tim Pool. Pearl Davis questions Lauren Chen about her coverage of Steven Crowder's divorce, discussing allegations of abuse, the media's portrayal of the situation, and the broader implications for men and women in similar circumstances.

Saturday at BottleRock Napa Valley will culminate with headliner Pearl Jam taking the Jam Cellars Stage. Some highlights at the festival Saturday: José Andrés / Stephen Curry / Bradley Cooper: 5 ...