--- title: Elisabeth Moss Revives Riot-Grrrl Vibes in Movie 'Her Smell' description: Starring Elisabeth Moss, Alex Ross Perry’s 'Her Smell' brings back riot-grrrl vibes in a fictional tale haunted by 1990s-era Courtney Love. canonical: https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-11T10:12:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T23:16:40.067Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Review: Elisabeth Moss Revives the Riot-Grrrl Vibe in 'Her Smell' og:description: Moss stars as Becky Something, the lead singer of a riot grrrl-era band og:url: https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf419621e2b2fdc9/6989480f096a9481f06a4e26/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Review: Elisabeth Moss Revives the Riot-Grrrl Vibe in 'Her Smell' twitter:description: Moss stars as Becky Something, the lead singer of a riot grrrl-era band twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf419621e2b2fdc9/6989480f096a9481f06a4e26/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Elisabeth Moss Revives the Riot-Grrrl Vibe in _Her Smell_ > Sponsored content. 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I saw one of those shows: Love opened herself wide to the audience as if she had no idea, or didn’t care, how much she should keep to herself. She flirted with us and taunted us. You couldn’t be sure if the show was a messy rebirth or a practice run of self-destruction. Maybe it was both. Alex Ross Perry’s _Her Smell_ is a fictional story haunted by the vibe of 1990s-era Love, with Elisabeth Moss starring as Becky Something, the drug-addled lead singer of a riot grrrl–era band called Something She. Becky and her bandmates (played, astutely and sensitively, by Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin) are scruffy rock-‘n’-roll darlings: they’ve earned a gold record and made the cover of _Spin_. But Becky is falling apart and taking the band down with her. An early scene shows her in a grubby backstage dressing room after one of the band’s shows, alternately ignoring and obsessing over her infant daughter. She grins at the baby like Heath Ledger’s Joker. Becky is a mess rendered in tight, lingering closeups, her face slicked with sweat, mascara and glitter, and most of _Her Smell_ is devoted to her perilous deterioration. This is the third film Moss has made with Perry, and the second in which she plays a woman spiraling into madness. (The first was Perry’s 2015 _Queen of Earth_.) Moss knows her way around this sort of role, and it’s not long before the movie’s dogged grimness starts to feel rote. And then, in the movie’s last third, the story–and Moss’s performance along with it–opens out into a kind of radiant, cautious optimism. Moss has said she drew her inspiration less from Love than from fragile but vital figures like Cobain and Marilyn Monroe. But for me, watching her as Becky brought back that circa-1994 Love, like a ghost from the planet of jagged memories. _Her Smell_ is an uneven movie, occasionally dipping into clichés. But Moss’s performance works as a distillation of one of Love’s signature lines, from the song “Doll Parts”: Becky knows what it costs to be the girl with the most cake. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/"},"headline":"Elisabeth Moss Revives the Riot-Grrrl Vibe in Her Smell","datePublished":"2019-04-11T10:12:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T23:16:40.067Z","description":"Starring Elisabeth Moss, Alex Ross Perry’s 'Her Smell' brings back riot-grrrl vibes in a fictional tale haunted by 1990s-era Courtney Love.","url":"https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf419621e2b2fdc9/6989480f096a9481f06a4e26/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Zacharek","jobTitle":"Film Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf419621e2b2fdc9/6989480f096a9481f06a4e26/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review","caption":"Moss draws inspiration from rock’s tragic heroes in Her Smell","creditText":"Gunpowder & Sky","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5568325/elisabeth-moss-her-smell-review/","name":"Elisabeth Moss Revives the Riot-Grrrl Vibe in Her Smell"}}]}] ```