Review: Maxxxine

Is the style over substance a flaw or the point?

The best scene in Ti West’s Maxxxine is a chase through the history of movie violence. Aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) is pursued across a Hollywood backlot by a private investigator whose fedora and bandaged nose make him a dead ringer for Chinatown’s Jake Gittes. She sprints through a Western town, a clapboard city and then up the steps of the