Don’t Worry Darling Reviews Round-Up: A White Woman’s Get Out?

Don’t Worry Darling is an upcoming thriller helmed by Olivia Wilde that stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in the lead and the supporting cast includes Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll, Kiki Layne and Sydney Chandler. The film’s story circles around the people who is living in an experimental community, a housewife starts to suspect that her husband’s company is hiding disturbing secrets. Promotional material for the film has been circulating around in theatres for a while. The film’s trailer looked quite pretty and had an eerie vibe to it. While Wilde is directing the film, the screenplay of the film is by Katie Silberman, based on a story by Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke and Silberman.

The film had its premiere today at the 79th Annual Venice Film Festival that is taking place between 31st August and 10th September. The critics and journalists who saw the film in attendance have given their first impressions and reviews of the film. Let’s see how this what the critics are saying.

Don’t Worry Darling Reviews: A Florence Pugh Show?

The first batch of reviews for Don’t Worry Darling are out and they’re not pretty. I’m hearing unanimous outrage regarding the film. Critics are appreciating the performances of the talent associated with the film. People have called the film an attempt at re-creating Get Out with a white woman in it and that would’ve worked but the film lacks Jordan Peele’s brilliance. The film has a 39% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the reviews make it seem like another big budget film that is going to disappoint audiences. Here are the reviews:

David Rooney, THR

“The high-concept, low-satisfaction psychological thriller marks an ambitious upgrade in scope for Wilde from the character-driven coming-of-age comedy of Booksmart, and she handles the physical aspects of the project with assurance. It’s just a shame all the effort has gone into a script without much of that 2019 debut’s disarming freshness.”

Kate Erbland, IndieWire

“Don’t Worry Darling is so clearly, so obviously not set in an idyllic ’50s community that to say the film packs a twist is not at twist at all. It’s disingenuous, easy, cheeky — much like the film itself, which starts off strong before crumbling into baffling storytelling choices made worse by the revolting intentions behind them.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“The film feels it has to avoid the obvious reason for Victory’s existence and go down the rabbit hole after something else: so when the switch is finally flipped to give us the big secret, it feels absurdly negligible and contrived, and the details are not thought through. Styles may or not be a talented actor; it’s not easy to tell from this, but the normally excellent Pugh has not been interestingly directed, certainly not compared with her work in broadly comparable movies such as Midsommar or The Falling.”

Helen O’Hara, Empire

“We want a confrontation that Alice never quite gets, and a sense of closure that never arrives. That might be Wilde’s point — these are, after all, messy questions and nebulous forces that reach far beyond the individual — but there’s a nagging feeling at the end that something remains unspoken and unrealised.”

Owen Gleiberman, Variety

“Between the pop ambition, the tasty dream visuals, and the presence of Harry Styles in his first lead role, Don’t Worry Darling should have no trouble finding an audience. But the movie takes you on a ride that gets progressively less scintillating as it goes along.”

Brian Truitt, USA Today

“Pugh, like she’s done with Black Widow, Midsommar and others, continues to make everything she’s in better – and, boy howdy, it’s needed here as the plot grows more convoluted. The lack of chemistry between Pugh and Styles is another disconnect – her dynamic with Pine, albeit antagonistic, is far more effective and not explored nearly enough.”

Pete Hammond, Deadline

“On its own terms, Don’t Worry Darling is actually quite entertaining if you’re in the mood, even if Wilde’s candy-coated psychological thriller doesn’t rewrite the rules of the genre in any significant way. Despite having a prestigious Out of Competition slot for its world premiere today at Venice, this is a commercial movie more than anything else and the New Line Cinema production could do well with audiences.”

Tomris Laffly, The AV Club

“Pugh, of course, is terrific, though she’s not just leading the film, she’s carrying it. But even if Don’t Worry Darling’s prettiness is intentionally engineered to make your skin crawl, all that sadly fills your brain when you turn away your gaze is a lingering emptiness—a film with no more weight than, well, a really good trailer.”

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#DontWorryDarling is part stunted social thriller, part thirst valentine — and the sort of misfire that should cause everyone involved to worry more than a little. Our review: https://t.co/AlB0MEsI23

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 5, 2022

Since everyone else has broken the embargo: I think DON’T WORRY DARLING is wildly entertaining and unique in the sense movie of this ilk seldom get made anymore. Pugh MVP; Harry holds it well. It’s like Soho House Jonestown. Full review dropping after the… actual embargo?

— douglas greenwood (@douglasgrnwd) September 5, 2022

So, here’s a shocker. Don’t Worry Darling is not very good. It’s not even good. https://t.co/BjRkfI4yaN

— kevin maher (@KevinTMaher) September 5, 2022

all I gotta say about DON’T WORRY DARLING is that @katerbland’s C+ review is extremely generous. https://t.co/yTyVkn1hdW

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 5, 2022

I really liked ‘Don’t Worry Darling.’

An entertaining psychological thriller with an incredibly powerful performance from Florence Pugh.

Olivia Wilde, Kiki Layne and Chris Pine are great, and I thought Harry Styles’ performance was haunting and intense.

Full review tomorrow.

— ahmad (@thisisnotahmad) September 5, 2022

Don’t Worry Darling is slated to release in theatres near you on 23rd September 2022.

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