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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Perfect Couple review – Nicole Kidman’s gorgeous murder mystery is ludicrously good

Liev Schreiber as Tag Winbury and Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in The Perfect Couple.
Admiring the fruit basket? Liev Schreiber as Tag Winbury and Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in The Perfect Couple. Photograph: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Netflix

It’s gorgeous to look at, it stars a 4,000-bedroom mansion on a beautiful stretch of US coastline and it’s packed with lavish lifestyles funded by fifth-generational wealth. There are cashmere knits in impractical colours, plus more beautiful coastline, a murder that almost everyone in the vicinity had a motive to carry out – and did I mention the beautiful coastline?

We can only be in the presence of Nicole Kidman’s latest vehicle. This time, it’s called The Perfect Couple, but you can think of it as Big Little Lies relocated from Monterey, California, to Nantucket, Massachusetts. Or as The Undoing with plot. Or as Nine Perfect Strangers, but not bonkers. It is also, as any luxe murder-mystery is these days, part The White Lotus – which Kidman wasn’t in, but who can quite remember?

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