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DON’T WORRY DARLING TBC

★★★☆☆ OUT 23 SEPTEMBER CINEMAS

DIRECTOR Olivia Wilde STARRING Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne SCREENPLAY Katie Silberman DISTRIBUTOR Warner Bros RUNNING TIME 121 mins

Chaos,” shudders Chris Pine’s Frank, the charming-slash-menacing leader of the community at the heart of Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller. “A nasty word.” It’s certainly a word that could be used to describe the pre-release headlines, discourse and tea-spilling surrounding Don’t Worry Darling’s casting changes, on-set relationships and competing publicity narratives.

A distraction from, or are as pertinent to the chatter surrounding its creation as they are to current events and the recent erasure of female body autonomy.

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