R | 2h 2m | Thriller, Drama, Period piece | September 23, 2022 “Don’t Worry Darling” is a mash-up of “The Stepford Wives,” “The Truman Show, and “One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest;” a peculiar cinematic hodge-podge that feels very much as if director Olivia Wilde was channeling the king of weirdness: director M. Night Shyamalan.
It’s a thriller featuring a highly stylized look, by way of the late 1950s-early 60s, and the lead performance by Florence Pugh almost saves the day, but even she, as perhaps the premiere actress of her generation, can’t quite manage drag this mess out of a place of immense boredom. The drama involving the cast that took place around the film’s Venice festival debut, was far more interesting than the actual movie….