Review of Alice, Darling (2022) by Bertobellamy — 17 May 2023

'Alice, Darling' touches on the critical subject of emotional abuse and how violence doesn't only involve something physical. Anna Kendrick gives an excellent performance as Alice, a woman who has fallen prey to a manipulator; the anxiety she transmits in some very crude scenes is notable.

However, the story is very thin, and maybe that's why there's a subplot of a missing girl that tries to fill in the runtime forcing you to think what would the possible outcome of Alice's relationship be; the idea is not unthinkable, but it feels a little on the nose and didactic.

Finally, although anti-climatic, the ending shows one of the ultimate weapons to defend against men like the one portrayed here: sorority.