Ladies First has been panned. It’s still an essential watch | Anna Smith

The Netflix gender-flip comedy film, in which Sacha Baron Cohen wakes to a world run by female chauvinists, is a valuable testimony to the enduring destructive force of gender bias ‘This Movie Is: Absurd.” That’s the descriptive label given to Thea Sharrock’s comedy film Ladies First on Netflix. Damien (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a male chauvinist who knocks his head and wakes up in a world run by women who are like him: ruthless in the boardroom and the bedroom, using and losing the opposite sex…