section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 72% of 262 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Pérez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 55 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 38 reviews from French critics.
  
  Kevin Maher from The Times rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, stating "this mad musical is one of the year's best films." Stephanie Zacharek of Time considered that a film such as Emilia Pérez feels "fierce and glorious, a radical act of the imagination with kindness in its heart". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times determined that "it's Gascón's performance that centers and grounds the story". Richard Brody of The New Yorker lamented that the film "presents twists and turns that exhaust themselves in the strain to stoke excitement; the movie is a wild ride to nowhere". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, billing it as a "slightly bizarre yet watchable musical", also writing that Gascón "carries it off with queenly flair".
  
  Leonard Maltin called the film "unique and amazing", writing: "Phrases like 'game-changer' and 'cutting-edge' can't capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. a knock-out." Peter Travers described the film as an "unmissable movie event", writing: "You've never seen anything like Jacques Audiard's Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don't want to miss."
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 72% of 262 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Pérez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 55 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 38 reviews from French critics.
  
  Kevin Maher from The Times rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, stating "this mad musical is one of the year's best films." Stephanie Zacharek of Time considered that a film such as Emilia Pérez feels "fierce and glorious, a radical act of the imagination with kindness in its heart". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times determined that "it's Gascón's performance that centers and grounds the story". Richard Brody of The New Yorker lamented that the film "presents twists and turns that exhaust themselves in the strain to stoke excitement; the movie is a wild ride to nowhere". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, billing it as a "slightly bizarre yet watchable musical", also writing that Gascón "carries it off with queenly flair".
  
  Leonard Maltin called the film "unique and amazing", writing: "Phrases like 'game-changer' and 'cutting-edge' can't capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. a knock-out." Peter Travers described the film as an "unmissable movie event", writing: "You've never seen anything like Jacques Audiard's Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don't want to miss."