Halina Reijn directs Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson and Antonio Banderas in this erotic drama where a high powered CEO risks it all to explore her sub/dom sexual fantasies with her enigmatic young intern.

The sort of movie where the lead man sports Nike and Adidas at the same time and you know it is so visually measured that it must mean SOMETHING. The sort of movie where they have definitely spent more time on the colour scheme than the writing of the third act. The sort of movie that gives good trailer moments but doesn’t have much more to it over the 90 minutes of filler in between. Nicole is being brave, the kink scenes have heat but never go too far, the whole thing is a HR nightmare. Why shouldn’t toxic parasite girlbosses have it all too? This is what keeps me up at night. A dual near miss between cult classic and flat out disaster.

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Perfect Double Bill: Bombshell (2019)

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