Don’t Worry Darling, the movie directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, has received reviews from critics at the Venice Film Festival.
The focus of the much-discussed film is on Alice and Jack, a seemingly ideal marriage played by Pugh and Styles, whose existence in a business town in Los Angeles unravels.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian scored the movie two stars when it made its festival debut outside of competition.
However, The Telegraph disagreed and gave it four stars.
An “unconvincing tale of dystopian suburbia,” according to Bradshaw, the movie “superciliously scrapes concepts from other films without entirely comprehending how and why they worked in the first place.”
While Alex Ritman of the Hollywood Reporter claimed that the movie “produced a solid seven-minute standing ovation,” Brian Viner of the Daily Mail gave it two stars, calling
Styles’ performance “a touch mechanical” in comparison to that of his co-star.
He stated, “The greater issue is that Don’t Worry Darling really isn’t very good.
Unfortunately, it contains echoes of far better movies, such The Truman Show (1998) and the mid-1970s masterpieces The Stepford Wives and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
