Her Smell

...built around a performance of near-unwatchable toxicity by Elisabeth Moss, who channels a combination of Courtney Love and Heath Ledger’s Joker with her spiteful, slowly imploding rock star.

...[Moss] sinks her claws into the film with peerless dedication and turns it into something halfway rewarding.

...[captures] the fate of the anti-rock star, the mid-Nineties female-fronted acts that were going to destroy the label system but ended up just the same self-destructive grist in the mill...

Viewers who make it through the first half of Alex Ross Perry's 'Her Smell' will be rewarded, but it isn't easy.

...is a berserker infused a mad poetry.