“I Want Your Sex,” Gregg Araki’s first feature in over a decade, stars Olivia Wilde as a sexually provocative artist who begins a B.D.S.M. relationship with her assistant, played by Cooper Hoffman. During their relationship, Wilde’s character mocks her sub for his naïveté and inexperience—qualities that she imputes to his entire generation, which seems to be less knowledgeable about, or interested in, sex than ever. Araki wrote the script with the former Vogue sex-and-relationships columnist Karley Sciortino, and one of the film’s sharpest scenes allows Hoffman’s character to defend his age group against charges of prudishness.
“The verbal and visual building blocks of Araki’s comedy—quick-witted one-liners, exuberant sex scenes, sartorial gags, garish décor—express a dazzling, totalizing sense of optimism,” Justin Chang writes. Read his full review:
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