Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex Opens to Split Reviews Over Style and Substance

Overview

• The film, shot after production began in 2024, assembled a cast including Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli XCX, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Margaret Cho, Johnny Knoxville and Daveed Diggs and completed a festival and sales run before Magnolia Pictures acquired U.S. rights.
• I Want Your Sex follows a young art-school graduate who becomes the assistant to an older performance artist and enters a domme/sub workplace relationship, with the movie foregrounding explicit BDSM imagery such as whips, chains and fetish gear.
• Reviewers note Gregg Araki’s candy-colored, satirical depiction of the Los Angeles art world and say the film uses provocative set pieces to critique fame, capitalism and contemporary creative scenes.
• Early critical response is mixed: multiple reviews single out Olivia Wilde’s performance as a highlight while citing a weak third act and structural problems that undercut emotional payoff.
• Araki’s production choices, including reversing the lead’s gender and employing an intimacy coordinator to manage explicit scenes, frame the film as a post–#MeToo reworking of power dynamics and may influence public discussion of consent and representation in sexualized cinema.