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- 2021
- R
- A24
- 2 h 10 m
- 2021
- R
- A24
- 2 h 10 m
Summary Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Chris Bergoch, Sean Baker
- 2021
- R
- A24
- 2 h 10 m
- 2021
- R
- A24
- 2 h 10 m
Red Rocket
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7.0
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Summary Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Chris Bergoch, Sean Baker
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
76
84% Positive
41 Reviews
41 Reviews
14% Mixed
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7 Reviews
2% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
76
84% Positive
41 Reviews
41 Reviews
14% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
For all the sinister undercurrents, Red Rocket is hilarious throughout.
Simon Rex gives a virtuoso performance.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.0
80% Positive
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
9% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.0
80% Positive
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
9% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
A masterful film, about a manipulative but likeable **** leading to his eventual downfall and rise. It shows not only a funny and well paced beautiful looking film but shows us sort of the opposite of what occured to Howard Ratner in Uncut Gems while he had bad luck lots of times it seems to be on Mikey's side. I love the supporting cast a lot as well. Simon Should be Oscar Nominated and so should this screenplay and cinematography it's a gorgeous Simon Rex film but the buzz is no where near where Florida project was so this won't make it to award shows sadly but damn is it one of my new favorites. Thank You Sean and Simon. 10/10. These other reviewers just didn't get it trust me. If this trailer interested you I think you will love it.
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Mikey is one of Baker’s most thought-through creations, and Rex brings him to life with terrifying honesty.
Mr. Rex gives a 100% phenomenal performance, starting with a bright veneer of charm that conceals only barely, then not at all, an unmoored soul.
It’s no surprise that [Rex] gives Mikey everything he’s got. What is a surprise is how much he’s got to give. The performance is riveting until, like the movie, it just becomes too much.
The movie may want you to see the best of us in the dingiest of places. But you’re as delusional as Mikey Saber if you think it will avert its eyes from showing us the worst of us as well.
The film, whose title may or may not refer to a slang term for a dog’s erection, often teeters between compassion and something that feels perilously close to cultural voyeurism.
Another exceptional delivery by the master realist Sean Baker. Highly enjoyable as usual, due to Baker's brilliant techniques of realism, which is always employed whether it be Tangerine, Florida Project etc... Using non-actors filming things in real places and not sets. It all makes for very candid watching, which makes the story all the more relatable and charming. Baker nails this one! I feel it is his best yet. This film is so easy to love. Baker is the 21st century John Cassavetes on digital. The truest of realism, sometimes so awkward it's cringeworthy... but such is life, at times.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Edward Hopper's "Automat" ('27) between "Lolita" ('55-'62) and "Boogie Nights" ('97). 5 minutes of standing ovation in Cannes: just associate the degraded, squalid, peripheral rural marginality with Trump and you're done.
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.
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In this raunchy indie comedy, and directed by Sean Baker ('The Florida Project'), Simon Rex stars as Mikey Saber, a washed up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown in hopes of getting by and starting anew. There, he encounters his estranged wife, drug dealers, job-hiring difficulty, and a potential new romantic interest in a young 17-yr-old donut shop girl. Baker's the kind of director who specializes in what I like to refer to as "white-trash cinema", films that specialize in detailing the lives of the lower class and ghetto small towns and the poor sleazy people that live there. He did this with 'The Florida Project' as well, and he does it again here to somewhat amusing effect. The film starts off humorous and intriguing enough, but the further it goes on, the more trashy, sleazy, and all-around smutty and gratuitous it becomes to the point of no return. I couldn't have cared last about any of these hicks, and while Rex undeniably gives a confident, albeit rather cocky (no pun intended) lead performance, even he's near impossible to root for or sympathize with, causing trouble and BS everywhere he goes throughout the film from start to finish. And I'm sorry, but watching him try to groom a hardly legal 17-yr-old girl into a relationship with him and into the porn industry did not sit right with me at all! The story is wandering and aimless and just feels all-around pointless and like a whole lot of nothing by the time the credits rolled. Overall, it's a complete sleazeball of a film with zero redeemable characters and an excessively smutty story. No thanks!
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Production Company
Cre Film
Release Date Dec 10, 2021
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating R
Awards
Deauville Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 3 Nominations
