Overview
- I Want Your Sex opened for critics in late July and reaches U.S. theaters on July 31, 2026, positioning Araki’s first feature in 12 years for wide audience scrutiny.
- Olivia Wilde stars as Erika Tracy and Cooper Hoffman plays her young assistant in a domme/sub workplace relationship that reviewers say foregrounds both sexual performance and unequal power.
- Critics generally praise Wilde’s and Hoffman’s daring performances but say the film is uneven, with several reviews calling out a rushed or problematic third act.
- The production leaned into explicit BDSM staging while using an intimacy coordinator and a compressed 17-day shoot to manage safety and logistics on set.
- Coverage highlights a broader conversation the film taps into about age-gap romances, consent and on-set safety, and marks Araki’s return to sex-forward cinema amid debates about generational attitudes toward sex.