The British star wittily holds together the swerving story impulses of Jonathan Schey's enjoyably silly battle-of-the-sexes satire, about a smooth London fuckboi who suddenly finds himself too much in demand.
By Guy Lodge
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Studiocanal Just when the victim/villain discourse about sleeper smash “Obsession” was finally beginning to die down, along comes “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me” — another story of a young man’s desires getting violently over-satisfied — to start it all up again. Merging romantic comedy, body horror and gender-war satire as casually as its handsome, outwardly affable protagonist gets women into bed (and then, crucially, out of it), this limber first feature from British writer-director Jonathan Schey is alternately silly, nasty fun for much of its running time, carried by a performance of witty good sportsmanship from Taron Egerton, though it’s occasionally hobbled by sexual politics that are slightly less progressive than it seems to think.
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