“Hill is clearly writing from painful lived experiences here, but without the perspective of having come out on the other side of them. As the kids say, he’s ‘posting through it,’ and the movie’s weird contradictions and tonal see-saws make for a bracing viewing experience. I can’t really defend the movie, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 04/12/2026
“This is where the compression of the text feels really limiting. We’re so locked into the main character’s mania that there’s no variation in tone, no comic relief nor any of the grace notes that make Shakespeare’s saga so rich. This might be the shortest Hamlet I’ve seen, but it feels like one of the longest because every scene is played at the same pitch.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/09/2026
“A naughty, big-hearted party of a movie, writer-director Sergio Tovar Velarde’s freewheeling sex farce The Divine Tragedy is a bawdy, ebullient film full of colorful costumes and even more colorful supporting characters. This messy, happily horny picture is exactly the kind of thing we come to festivals like Wicked Queer to celebrate.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 04/08/2026
“Penn’s nervy performance goes full Ratso in a parking garage scene when he dares a car to run him over. It’s a magnificently off-putting turn, all twitchy paranoia with a voice as thin as his pencil mustache. Daulton was the forerunner of the actor’s iconically obnoxious cokeheads in Carlito’s Way and Hurlyburly, but not all viewers found pleasure in his company.” – Crooked Marquee, 04/03/2026
“The sheer volume of time we spend with these people is needed to convey the weird normalization of life under authoritarianism. It depicts how we all adjust to massive affronts to our cherished ideals and personal liberties while everyone finds a way to go on with the day-to-day business of living, even as the world changes forever around us.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 04/02/2026
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