Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley\u2019s brilliantly incisive Thoroughbreds<\/i><\/strong>. It\u2019s hard to tell whether the fragile Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and the self-assured Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) are ever truly friends, or whether they\u2019re ever showing each other their true emotions. Part of what\u2019s captivating about Thoroughbreds<\/i> is the way that its two main characters are simultaneously completely open and insidiously manipulative, playing on each other\u2019s weaknesses in ways that they themselves don\u2019t necessarily even understand (with every feint and bluff masterfully conveyed by the movie\u2019s stars). At the same time, they share a genuine, affecting bond as two misfits who don\u2019t subscribe to the moral code of their rigid private-school society. Finley isn\u2019t interested in judging them, and he fills the movie with deadpan humor and a percussive, unsettling musical score that keeps the viewer constantly on edge. His camera roves through Lily\u2019s cold, cavernous suburban mansion in a series of long takes, and the movie often delivers emotional reveals via rack focus. It\u2019s meticulously composed and utterly vicious, just like its two fearsome protagonists.<\/span><\/p>\n Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley\u2019s brilliantly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":10875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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