I Want Your Sex Review Brief: Gregg Araki Returns Provocatively

The setup

Gregg Araki's first feature in more than a decade pairs Olivia Wilde's commanding artist with Cooper Hoffman's inexperienced assistant, who becomes both muse and participant in her carefully controlled world. The setup promises sex, power games, dark comedy, and the director's taste for beautiful disorder.

What the source review emphasizes

Empire's published review awards the title 4/5. The review welcomes Araki's unruly voice back and highlights the leads' commitment to a story that keeps shifting the balance of control. It treats the provocation as purposeful rather than decorative, even when the movie's excess makes the emotional line deliberately messy.

What viewers or players should know

This is aimed at adults comfortable with explicit themes and unstable relationships. Its energy comes from friction, satire, and tonal risk, not from presenting a model romance. Viewers who enjoy Araki's earlier transgressive work are the clearest audience for the experiment.

Source note

This is a source-based review briefing, not an independent Stellar rating. Stellar wrote this original summary from Empire's published review and publicly available project information; it does not reproduce the source article.