Toxic

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Toxic

2024

1h 39m

Drama

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Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It's a disturbing essay in sexuality, poverty and sexual capital which reminded me a little of Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure and Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday in its candid, affectless evocation of the young female body.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 23, 2025

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

The film is mostly an endless stream of exploitative acts hoisted upon Marija and Kristina that often sacrifices any attempt at exploring their inner lives.

Aug 22, 2024

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Guy Lodge

Variety

Saulė Bliuvaitė‘s impressively tough-minded debut feature is uncompromising in its depiction of the punishment and self-abuse endured by girls enrolled at a fly-by-night modeling academy.

Aug 19, 2024

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Juan Pablo Russo

EscribiendoCine

[Toxic is] a generational portrait that, from an intimate perspective, reflects the brutality of the system that defines the value of bodies and lives. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 7/10

Jul 28, 2025

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

This episodic narrative doesn’t arrive at a conclusive denouement, but it is an arresting snapshot of an unfamiliar milieu.

Jul 24, 2025

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Stephen A. Russell

Orion's Shoulder (Substack)

Vesta Matulytė and Leva Rupeikaitė excel as frenemies who team up, set on a better life by hell, high water or tapeworm in this lacerating take-down of the smoke and mirrors industry’s desolation of young women’s bodies.

Jan 2, 2025

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Synopsis

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Director: Saule Bliuvaite
Producer: Giedré Burokaité
Screenwriter: Saule Bliuvaite
Production Co: Akis Bado
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Lithuanian
Runtime: 1h 39m