5.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Shell (2025)
Shell (2025)
Overview
Black comedy body horror film directed by Max Minghella. Elisabeth Moss stars as Samantha Lake, a struggling actress who turns to a trendy skin treatment clinic run by CEO Zoe Shannon (Kate Hudson) amid career woes. Kaia Gerber co-stars.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
5.5
Overview
Black comedy body horror film directed by Max Minghella. Elisabeth Moss stars as Samantha Lake, a struggling actress who turns to a trendy skin treatment clinic run by CEO Zoe Shannon (Kate Hudson) amid career woes. Kaia Gerber co-stars.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around an aging actress's desperate pursuit of youth through a dubious wellness treatment, critiquing patriarchal beauty standards and corporate exploitation. This alignment with progressive themes of gender inequality and anti-capitalism determines its left-leaning bias.
The film incorporates ethnic diversity in supporting roles with actors of Black, Asian, and Middle Eastern backgrounds, while the narrative delivers a subtle feminist critique of beauty standards and ageism in Hollywood without centering explicit attacks on traditional white or male identities.
Secondary
Shell offers scant exploration of family dynamics, limiting portrayals to the protagonist's distant past in a family sitcom and a fleeting former babysitting tie that underscores her isolation rather than any familial bonds or norms. This peripheral treatment results in a neutral stance on family values, as the narrative prioritizes individual career woes and monstrous transformations over relational structures.
Shell contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, offering no portrayal for evaluation.
No transsexual characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative follows cisgender women confronting ageism and beauty standards through experimental procedures, with body horror arising from side effects, but without any exploration of gender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Shell features an original screenplay with newly created characters, including female leads Samantha Lake, Zoe Shannon, and Chloe Benson, showing no instances of gender swaps from canon or historical baselines.
Shell features original characters in an original screenplay, lacking any prior canonical or historical racial depictions to enable race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.9
5.2
Critic Ratings
6.3
5.5
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