Emilia Pérez
Directed by Jacques Audiard · 2024 ·
Emilia Pérez (2024) earns a 57% Celluloid Score — Not Recommended. Not Recommended — reception was largely negative.Critics (70%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (33%).
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.
Five-source breakdown
🏆 12 award wins · 5 nominations — Won Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards 2025
Netflix Why this score?
- Majority of critics rated it fresh (70%).
- Audience reception was lukewarm (33%).
- Metascore is generally favorable (70/100).
- Celluloid Score 57% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.
Best for
- Critics' darlings — stronger with reviewers than general viewers
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- Anyone needing a safe, highly rated pick
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Is Emilia Pérez worth watching?
No — Emilia Pérez earns a 57% Celluloid Score. Not Recommended — reception was largely negative.
Critics Consensus
Jacques Audiard's operatic cartel musical is bold and undeniably singular, but its glib treatment of trans identity and Mexican violence made it one of the most fiercely contested films of the year.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
Critics (70%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (33%).
What is Emilia Pérez about?
A feared Mexican cartel boss enlists an overworked lawyer to engineer a disappearance and a gender transition, reemerging as a woman determined to atone — in a genre-scrambling musical melodrama that divided critics and audiences as sharply as any film of its year.
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