Emilia Pérez | NETFLIX

A crazy, daring tale-with songs!-of crime, revenge and gender reassignment

- Tom Gliatto

MUSICAL Emilia Pérez is the year's biggest extravaganza: It's like a fireworks show exploding above a three-ring circus that's adjacent, perhaps, to a mariachi band playing behind a line of high-kicking chorus girls. If the film weren't set in Mexico, there might even be penguins on a slide. It's a wild, genre-bending ride, a musical that sizzles with outrageous passion and outrageous camp. It's as if Pedro Almodóvar teamed up with John Waters.