"Thoroughbreds" may reach the finish line a little quickly and neatly, but at least it never turns soft and nice. Finley remains true to his vision, and it's a thrilling spectacle to behold. Thoroughbreds is a very unique movie that takes chances in ways you don't expect, and for that alone it warrants a recommendation from me.
Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy play rich kids with a dark side in this remarkable debut from East Coast playwright Cory Finley. movie's elegant surface. Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media. This movie started out interesting and fell flat and got slow quickly.
The acting is great but it's just not worth it. Thoroughbreds is a stylish, twisted millennial Heathers: EW review. But it's also a fun, sharp shock of a movie; a poison dart with its own black little heart. Playwright Cory Finley makes his directorial and screenwriting debut with Thoroughbreds, a deliciously twisted thriller and dark comedy about two wealthy suburban girls who plot a murder. Olivia Cooke plays Amanda, a disturbed wealthy teenager, just out of a psychiatric facility for something horrible she did to her mother's thoroughbred horse. Starring: Anton Yelchin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kaili Vernoff and others.
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Producer: Alex Saks, Andrew Duncan, Jim Rash and others. "Selfish Nihilism Leads to Murder". Upper-crust schoolgirl Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) is hired to tutor her friend Amanda (Olivia Cooke) some years after a traumatic event. A jarring score is the first alarm bell that Thoroughbreds doesn't know what it's at, and, sure enough, it's followed by scenes which are devoid of tension or emotional investment in the characters.
Thoroughbreds is a Black Comedy thriller starring Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy, and written and directed by Cory Finley (in his directorial debut.) Thoroughbreds plunges you into an ice-cold bath of amorality, but debuting writer-director Cory (You can call Thoroughbreds a horror film, but it's the horror of having too much money and a poorly. Thoroughbreds is the first movie from writer/director, Corey Finley. As for a debut, I would give him a thumbs up. He clearly understands how to effectively use his camera to build tension — there's… Thoroughbreds Review: Putting The Society Back In Sociopath.