Review: Olivia Wilde's scandal-ridden 'Don't Worry Darling' isn't good — or bad — enough
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 07, 2022
4 minutes
In Olivia Wilde's trouble-in-paradise thriller "Don't Worry Darling," Florence Pugh plays a devoted housewife called Alice, a common enough name that here evokes a few famous antecedents. Watching her go about her daily routine — cooking every meal, cleaning the house from top to bottom and venturing into town for the occasional grocery run — you might be reminded of Alice Kramden. That's true even if Pugh's Alice seems to inhabit a brighter, comfier (if less funny) vision of 1950s domesticity than "The Honeymooners," one that's awash in midcentury modern splendor and sits at the end of a picture-perfect desert cul-de-sac. It helps that Alice has a husband, Jack (Harry Styles), who's
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