# Taron Egerton plays a fuckboi who gets what he wants

> Jonathan Schey's debut mashes rom-com, body horror and gender-war satire around a London charmer whose desires get answered far too well.
- Title: Taron Egerton plays a fuckboi who gets what he wants · Variety
- Summary: Jonathan Schey's debut mashes rom-com, body horror and gender-war satire around a London charmer whose desires get answered far too well. A genre-hopping…
- Keywords: film review, comedy, body horror, taron egerton, satire, entertainment, culture, Taron, Egerton, plays, fuckboi, gets
- Source: Variety — https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/everybody-wants-to-fuck-me-review-taron-egerton-1236859572
- Author: Guy Lodge
- Published: 2026-09-12T22:58:09+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: film review, comedy, body horror, taron egerton, satire, entertainment, culture
## A sequel to the discourse
Just as arguments over who was victim and who was villain in the sleeper hit "Obsession" were fading, this film arrives to restart them.

> Just when the victim/villain discourse about sleeper smash "Obsession" was finally beginning to die down
## Same premise, new body
Another young man's desires get violently over-satisfied. Wanting everything and then getting it is the engine of the whole picture.

> another story of a young man's desires getting violently over-satisfied
## Three genres, no seams
Romantic comedy, body horror and gender-war satire get merged as casually as the hero gets women into bed, and then out of it again.

> Merging romantic comedy, body horror and gender-war satire as casually as its handsome, outwardly affable protagonist gets women into bed
## Schey's limber debut
British writer-director Jonathan Schey's first feature swerves between tones and stays light on its feet, silly and nasty for most of the runtime.

> this limber first feature from British writer-director Jonathan Schey is alternately silly, nasty fun
## Egerton is the glue
The star plays a smooth London fuckboi and lets the film puncture his own nice-guy image, holding the swerving story together with good sportsmanship.

> carried by a performance of witty good sportsmanship from Taron Egerton
## Less progressive than it thinks
The satire keeps tripping on its own sexual politics, which lag behind the forward-thinking film it believes it is making.

> occasionally hobbled by sexual politics that are slightly less progressive than it seems to think
## Key takeaway

A genre-hopping first feature that's nasty fun on the surface, held together by Egerton's willingness to look bad, but its sexual politics aren't as sharp as it assumes.