Film review: Don’t Worry Darling

In all the hubbub around Don’t Worry Darling – everyone becoming body language experts over pictures from the premiere, the egging-on of the apparent rift between Florence Pugh and director-actor Olivia Wilde, the bizarre idea that Harry Styles actually has it in him to do something as aggressive as gob on someone – a lot of people missed something important. On the film’s steamy rumpo-on-the-dining-table-featuring trailer, Florence Pugh told Harpers Bazaar, ​“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it. It’s not why I’m in this industry. [This movie is] bigger and better than that.”  It is, and there’s so much more to the most talked-about movie of 2022 than spats, spitting and misleadingly tra...

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