Even a decade ago, Don’t Worry Darling would just be a good movie. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended his career in near-cameos in minor adventure films. Pugh gets an old-school star turn straight out of the early 1990s.
At least in terms of directorial talent, Olivia Wilde proves that Booksmart was no fluke.
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For general moviegoers who want to see a fantastical erotic thriller with gorgeous movie stars amid a visually dynamic ‘fantasy’ world, that’s exactly what the film delivers. I’d expect the perpetually online to claim to be performatively confused while regular (or irregular) moviegoers accept the film on its own terms. There’s a refreshing faith in moviegoers to accept elements and plot beats sans hand-holding exposition because they make sense for the characters. Wilde and Silberman seem less interested in the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ than the ‘why.’ There is a refreshing lack of explanation regarding (potentially) fantastical elements. Upon fleeing her violently abusive husband (Morgan Spector), Sadie (Wilde) undergoes intense physical training, boxing and MMA lessons, and grueling survival methods. Still, Wilde knows that this could be her only mid-budget, non-franchise, R-rated movie, and she’s leaving it all on the table. Olivia Wilde recent and upcoming movie credits: Perfect (TBA), Relanxious (TBA), Bickford Shmecklers Cool Ideas (TBA), Dont Worry Darling (2022). Wilde serves a dish of ice-cold revenge in A Vigilante, Sarah Daggar-Nickson's well-received feature film debut about a woman pushed to the absolute breaking point of spousal abuse. I will concede that the second and third acts are more redundant and thus longer than they need to be. Most of the melodrama centers around the heroine, her husband and the presumed puppet master. The rest of the cast, including Nick Kroll, mostly fades into the background. They watched mostly in silence, making comments now and then and laughing together at the funny parts. It’s an example of race-conscious, rather than race-blind, casting. For now, we'll eat our cookies and enjoy the movie. It’s probably not an accident that this dark-skinned Black woman finds herself unable to cope with the conventionally ‘perfect’ post-World War II community. Olivia Wilde has a small but crucial supporting role as a kind of den mother of the group, while Gemma Chan has only a few choice moments as Pine’s wife and the town dance teacher. The movie focuses on the time when Wilde was enjoying his hugely popular success in the London theater & social worlds as well as his fall from grace from them when he is arrested & sent to prison for his being gay &, allegedly, 'corrupting the morals of young men'.
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