I told myself I wouldn’t talk about the bad press, but “Don’t Worry Darling” is a movie about lying, so I lied. Here’s one sentence of bad-press recap. Shia LaBeouf fired no wait he quit, director Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles sittin’ in a tree well maybe not, Florence Pugh ditches publicity launch no wait she’s filming “Dune 2,″ did Harry just eject something from his mouth onto Chris Pine’s lap no wait he didn’t, actually I think he did just some gum or something not actual spit right there at the Venice Film Festival.
So how’s the movie?
Frustrating! Frustrating. Everything not right with “Don’t Worry Darling” wasn’t right from the beginning. Even a good director — and Wilde is that, though her hand in developing this material clearly wasn’t without some wrong turns — must deal with script problems if they’re there, in the story, lurking and waiting to mess everything up and send audiences out muttering, wait what?
