Strange Darling

A respectable 7/10, but the hype that has been building up around Strange Darling on Twitter and TikTok for the past two months is (as usual) a bit detrimental to the viewing experience. It's a pleasantly raw thriller with a charismatic duo of heroes and a non-chronological narrative that doesn't really add much to the end result. On the contrary, it makes the viewer expect something to happen that the non-chronological narrative was chosen for, which paradoxically makes that one major twist more predictable. And there is not much further to take in terms of story. The soundtrack suits it at times, but in a couple of scenes it felt too much of a stretch. (02/10/2024)

We have this highly praised erotic thriller out (7.5 from 7.5k people on IMDB is pretty overhyped for me, it's not that great), but it's worth seeing. The film sort of tries to follow Tarantino's style of being divided into six chapters that build on each other non-chronologically, but here I found that downright annoying and, more importantly, it had no reason and it rather hurts the film. There's not much to write about the plot, because it's all a bit different in the end and the director can definitely surprise, so it’s commendable, too bad that the violence is kept very much at bay and we don't get any proper gore, even though it's encouraged a lot, and the ending is pretty light. I'd say it's more likely to appeal to the women. Good, but I don’t think I’ll remember it in a week; unfortunately, there were few interesting attractions here. 6/10. (02/10/2024)