seduction

It is perhaps not a coincidence that when Vi and Caitlyn finally consummate their relationship, the literal seduction is linked to Vi’s figurative succumbing to Caitlyn’s politics: She accepts the badge, with all of the raw emotion of a zealous new recruit to a supposedly noble cause.

The seduction of isolation battles with the craving to be held and seen in all their pain, all their darkness, all their hard-won familiarity with the underworlds that most souls spend their entire lives trying to escape.

What initially seems like seduction begins to feel like sedation, and the movie nearly loses itself in its drowsy rhythm.

Michael Caine’s performance as the transgender psychiatrist/murderer in “Dressed to Kill” is “predictably amazing and daring”; that film’s intricately constructed cat-and-mouse seduction sequence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the interiors were actually shot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art — is “simply mesmerizing and bewitching.”

This is a drama about the seduction of language.