Pick of the week
The Girlfriend
Tense, jumpy music. An oddly intense mother-son relationship. Plenty of conversational cut and thrust. This melodramatic psychological thriller parades its genre signifiers like a badge of honour. It centres on the relationship between Cherry (Olivia Cooke) and Danny (Laurie Davidson). She’s an ambitious, cunning, thwarted estate agent who is looking for a shortcut up London’s social ladder; he’s a slightly gormless, grinning rich boy. When Danny brings Cherry home to meet his parents, his uptight, manipulative mother Laura (Robin Wright) smells a rat. Thus begins a battle of wills between two women whose mutual suspicion quickly turns into deep antipathy.
Prime Video, from Wednesday 10 September
