Thoroughbreds 2017
This movie got good reviews, but I had never heard of it before seeing it in a Screen Pass library. It was an early role for Anya Taylor-Joy, who is everywhere now. It was hard to get into, as her character (a wealthy high school student living with her mother and stepfather) tutors/befriends a girl who seems to have no emotions. It is a dark comedy, but mostly dark and a cringey sick kind of humor that I don’t care for. It took me a while to work through this movie, finishing it with minutes to spare after having to borrow it again using another Screen Pass. It has some good elements to it and I could see how some people would like it. I didn’t recognize Anton Yelchin as a drug dealer until I looked him up. It was one of his last movies before he died and he is very good in it, playing a character that maybe Steve Zahn would have played years earlier. The two girls scheme to kill the one girl’s stepfather and it plays out fairly unrealistically, though the actors are doing a good job and the plot has some decent elements. However, I was generally disappointed with the movie’s pessimism and gallows humor. It is one of those movies where you don’t like any of the characters, so it is kind of repulsive.
Written: 16 Apr 2022