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If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Music · Fantasy · 2021

Featuring music from her fourth studio album produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, this evocative film experience stars Halsey as the young and pregnant Queen Lila, who wrestles with the manipulative chokehold of love.

Movie details

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

“All of this is temporary.”

2021 Music · Fantasy 53m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.4 / 10

2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100 %

Tomatometer

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Featuring music from her fourth studio album produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, this evocative film experience stars Halsey as the young and pregnant Queen Lila, who wrestles with the manipulative chokehold of love.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Colin Tilley

Written by

Halsey

Halsey

Halsey

Queen Lila / Lilith

Sasha Lane

Sasha Lane

The Seer

Vuk Čelebič

Vuk Čelebič

The King

Brian Caspe

Brian Caspe

The Aristocrat

P

Petr Barvik

Knight #11

M

Michal Bednář

Knight #3

J

Jan Beránek

Knight #14

Court is in session

Put If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.