Don't Worry Darling

"To really work, the film needed to reel us in slowly, to be insidious and surprising... Instead, it’s ominous in an obvious way."

"If this film is really about female pleasure, we’d hate to see Wilde’s interpretation of a film about female pain. This one hurts enough."

"[A] high-concept, low-satisfaction psychological thriller..."

"It doesn’t quite stick the landing, but its flight to that point is fascinating."

"Don’t Worry Darling plays like a bad Op-Ed piece that wants you to believe its good intentions are more significant and righteous than they actually are."

"Laden with half-baked, risk-free ideas that do little to shock or stir."

"While Don’t Worry Darling isn’t THAT bad, it’s also not very good."

"The film has the swing-for-the-fences ambition that should have at least made it a noble and compelling folly, but its repetitiveness frustratingly undercuts its grandiosity."

"A movie that’s not a disaster, but not particularly distinguished; a movie that, in the end, will wind up being as forgettable as its own bizarre publicity."

"[Wilde] isn’t a strong enough filmmaker at this point to navigate around the story’s weaknesses, much less transcend them."