MaXXXine (18)

★★★ Ti West wraps his slasher trilogy in satisfying style, putting a blood-soaked, Hollywood-branded bow on his eras-spanning saga. ~ Total Film.

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Following on from X and Pearl, writer/director Ti West delivers the finale to his crime horror trilogy starring Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon.

Set in 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break.

But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

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★★★★★ Mia Goth is brain-blastingly brilliant in the bloody climax of Ti West's schlocky trilogy. This film puts on a gleeful display of blood-letting. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ Goth gives one of horror’s great performances. ~ NME.

★★★★ Following 1970s-set slasher X and its Technicolor melodrama-inspired prequel, Pearl, writer/director Ti West completes his unconventional indie horror trilogy with another well-executed homage. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ Capping an unusual trilogy, MaXXXine is an intense woman-fights-back thriller. Mia Goth’s Maxine is what you’d get if the Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster of Taxi Driver were fused in the telepod from The Fly. ~ Empire.

★★★★ A horribly watchable Hollywood tale of sex, death, fear and gore; Mia Goth returns for the third chapter of the X trilogy as an adult film star trying to take a crack at horror while a serial killer stalks the city’s sex workers. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ Goth stuns in this nasty yet funny cocaine-fuelled Hollywood slasher, but it’s not as good as ‘Pearl’. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ MAXXXine may not be West’s best film, but it’s as close as you’ll get today to a 1980s-vintage Brian De Palma thriller, and that’s some kind of a monster. ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.