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    Cory Finley's 'Thoroughbreds' is a delectably twisted mean-girls noir

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2018 3 minutes

    "Empathy isn't your strong suit." That's Amanda (Olivia Cooke) addressing her friend Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the sleek, withering psychological chiller "Thoroughbreds." By that point her criticism will strike you as either laughably redundant or outrageously hypocritical, since Amanda is, if anything, even more removed from the normal spectrum of human emotions than Lily is.

    The bond between these two human icicles is at the pitch-black heart of writer-director Cory Finley's debut feature, a mean-girls noir that ponders the logistics (and occasionally, the ethics) of a little murder between friends.

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