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Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen in Ladies First. Pic: Rob Youngson\/Netflix<\/p>\nNetflix’s new film Ladies First seems to have struck a sour note with viewers.<\/p>\n
It’s a gender-reversal film, led by Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike. And what many believe should have been a message to men, from women, that they wouldn’t be treated similarly to how women are marginalised in a patriarchal society, transpired to be the exact opposite. Instead, in this movie, men are marginalised in an exaggerated way to prove a point.<\/p>\n
Still, it finds itself ranked #1 in the Irish Netflix charts at present, so if you’re planning to kick back, relax, and watch it, here’s everything you need to know.<\/p>\n
Plot<\/p>\n
Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen in Ladies First. Pic: Rob Youngson\/Netflix<\/p>\n
The story follows Damien Sachs, a wealthy, egotistical, chauvinistic advertising executive who thinks he has it all – money, power, and casual flings. That’s what makes the world go round, right?<\/p>\n
After a confrontation with Alex Fox, a talented female employee he has belittled, Damien accidentally knocks himself unconscious and wakes up in a parallel world where women hold all positions of power.<\/p>\n
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Sacha Baron Cohen in Ladies First. Pic: Netflix<\/p>\n
Damien finds himself having drawn the short end of the stick, being marginalised in this matriarchal society. Meanwhile, Alex is thriving in her new leadership role.<\/p>\n
The film explores gender dynamics through role reversals, workplace satire, and exaggerated social norms.<\/p>\n
Cast<\/p>\n
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Ladies First, Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen. Pic: Netflix<\/p>\n
Sacha Baron Cohen, fresh off the back of his split from Isla Fisher<\/a>, and Rosamund Pike star opposite one another in Ladies First<\/a> as Damien and Alex, respectively.<\/p>\n The supporting cast includes comedian Tom Davis, Emily Mortimer, and Richard E. Grant, as well as Irish actress Fiona Shaw of Bad Sisters and Harry Potter fame.<\/p>\n What are people saying about it?<\/p>\n The gender-reversal principle sounds good in theory, but for many, it hasn’t been executed well in practice.<\/p>\n Ladies First has garnered a Popcornmeter rating of 68 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, and a Tomatometer rating of just 18 per cent – harsh!<\/p>\n One Letterboxd user has written: ‘Netflix continuing to validate my decision to cancel Netflix,’ as another penned: ‘I don’t know if the movie knows what it’s trying to say. It completely missed its own point.’<\/p>\n ‘The role-reversal is more, “women are the ones sexualising men”, and not “the world run by women”. It pretends this matriarchy world would be equally as terrible a place to live in. Wrong,’ someone else wrote.<\/p>\n Another penned: ‘Somehow managed to make a movie about misogyny that still feels weirdly misogynistic.’<\/p>\n Watch the trailer for Ladies First below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix’s new film Ladies First seems to have struck a sour note with viewers. It’s a gender-reversal film,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-468487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ladies](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ladies-First-Rosamund-Pike-Sacha-Baron-Cohen.jpg\")
Ladies First, Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen. Pic: Netflix<\/p>\n![\"Ladies](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RY_LF_HIGHLIGHTS_15-01-25_2995_R2.jpg\")
Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike. Pic: Rob Youngson\/Netflix<\/p>\n