A washed-up adult film star slinks back to his Texas hometown with nothing but a duffel bag, a silver tongue, and a talent for ruining lives. In Red Rocket, Sean Baker crafts a sun-scorched character study that’s funny, uncomfortable, and oddly endearing—if your tolerance for charming dirtbags is high. Simon Rex delivers a career-reviving performance as the human embodiment of a midlife crisis in tube socks. Gritty, authentic, and frequently jaw-dropping, it’s like a Florida Project for the terminally shameless.