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Mia Goth Will Almost Convince You MaXXXine Has Something to Say
For that, the girl deserves an Oscar.
The year is 1985, and L.A. is cowering in the shadow of serial killer Richard Ramirez, known at the time only as the Night Stalker, though when bodies start turning up around Maxine, two detectives, played by Bobby Cannavale and Michelle Monaghan, suspect it’s not the work of the notorious culprit but a copycat with ties to her past. Maxine starts to think they may be on to something when a sleazy PI named John Labat (Kevin Bacon) turns up on behalf of a mysterious client, making threatening mentions of what happened in Texas — though why she’d be on the hook for the massacre is never made clear. Like Brian De Palma’s tawdry-gorgeous thriller, MaXXXine takes place in a city where seediness and luxury coexist, and where a mansion in the Hollywood Hills is just a quick ride away from the peep show where Maxine works when she isn’t shooting porn.
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