"Alice, Darling" - ★ ★ ½ Emotional abuse rarely gets the subtle, sensitive treatment on screen as it does in Mary Nighy's thoughtful if uneven drama"Alice, Darling," starring Anna Kendrick.
What we begin to grasp is that Alice's mind is occupied, unsettlingly, by Simon, whether she's with him or not."Alice, Darling" is a kind of psychological home invasion film, movingly played with twitchy nerves from head to toe by Kendrick in a performance starkly more dramatically intense than her usually more comic screen roles.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Instead, Nighy's film is grounded in the psychology of Alice and the support she gleans from her friends."Alice, Darling" unravels during the trio's weeklong getaway to a lakeside cottage, a vacation that Alice -- sensing her boyfriend's likely disapproval -- has told him is a business trip.