Review: Bedroom and boardroom intrigue abounds in Netflix's wickedly entertaining 'Fair Play'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 27, 2023
4 minutes
Chloe Domont's "Fair Play," a smart, crackling thriller about sex, money, gender and power in the modern age, begins with a wickedly funny omen. Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich), hot and horny and deliriously happy, have slipped away from a wedding reception (not theirs) for a bathroom quickie — an ill-timed tryst in every sense, leaving Emily's dress and Luke's lips stained with menstrual blood. They gasp in shock but laugh it off; they're too drunk, on booze and each other, to worry about what everyone will think. And then Emily spies the ring that's slipped out of Luke's pocket, spurring him to drop clumsily to one knee, red
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