‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Film Review: Florence Pugh Shines as Olivia Wilde Provokes
thewrap.com“Don’t Worry Darling” is a mixture of “The Stepford Wives” and “Get Out” is both accurate and deeply misleading. It’s accurate because Olivia Wilde’s satiric and somewhat frantic psychological thriller does borrow from films like “Stepford,” where an idealized community is one in which the women are dolls designed for male satisfaction, and “Get Out,” which uses horror trappings to grapple with timely issues of power and privilege.
But it’s misleading because there’s another film to which “Don’t Worry Darling” owes even more than it does to those two – but to even mention the other film’s name would be to give away a crucial plot twist that happens late in the film and changes everything.So we won’t mention The Film That Shall Remain Nameless, except to say that Wilde’s embrace of its premise is not exactly handled as smoothly and seamlessly as you might hope.
It’s provocative, to be sure, but it might have you walking out of the theater muttering, “now, wait a minute…” as you ponder inconsistencies and things that just don’t add up.“Don’t Worry Darling,” which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept.
5, is bigger, bolder and more ambitious than Wilde’s sharp and satisfying directorial debut, 2019’s “Booksmart,” but it’s not nearly as sure-handed in tone as that gem.
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