Thoroughbreds
Crit
Two films in less than a week w/ great Rotten Tomatoes numbers but a dissent from Manohla Dargis, and in both cases (though less so here that with The Party), I'm with Ms. D.Like the other, this is wicked, and wickedly well acted, but it falls short in direction and writing (though here at least it's not pretentiously "smart" writing; it's just storytelling that makes little sense).
I was hoping for Heavenly Creatures redux, but while the young actors (in this case, the already familiar Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke, plus the tragically terminated Anton Yelchin) make their marks, I don't think we'll be looking back at writer-director Cory Finley years from now as we did the earlier film's writers and director.
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