She Is Conann is a glamorous fever dream about finding beauty in barbarism

Movie ReviewDirector Bertrand Mandico’s feminist spin on Conan the Barbarian is a heady smorgasbord of gorgeous visuals and meditations on violence.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

A tight shot of a red-headed woman with blood smeared on her face sitting in a car and leaning on the shoulder of a Black woman whose face is accented in silver eyeshadow. Image: Altered Innocence

Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian is so deeply rooted in the golden age of cartoonishly hypermasculine pulp fantasy that it’s hard

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