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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 11 m
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 11 m
Summary Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate.
Directed By: Emerald Fennell
Written By: Emerald Fennell
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 11 m
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 11 m
Saltburn
60
7.1
Where to Watch
Summary Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate.
Directed By: Emerald Fennell
Written By: Emerald Fennell
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 52 Critic Reviews
60
54% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
42% Mixed
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 52 Critic Reviews
60
54% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
42% Mixed
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Fennell has a sharp eye for outrage, and an even sharper one for hotness, crafting any number of scenarios and images here that may elicit sotto voce phwoars against your better judgement.
Fennell has captured something real about these unreal people and the world they live in. Her film slices with a scalpel, peels back the layers and finds only hollowness beneath. Maybe that’s the real twist.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 User Ratings
7.1
67% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
22% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
11% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 User Ratings
7.1
67% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
22% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
11% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
The depravity on display, the things that make many in the audience **** with adolescent glee, are wildly romantic and caustic at the same time. I don’t think many appreciate the satire and subliminal currents here. It’s not as immediately pungent as Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ but by no means is it a lesser effort. I found it fascinating and intriguing and more, wildly entertaining. Keoghan & Pike are fantastic.
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Come for the class warfare and the occasional shots-fired zingers about the rich being different than you and me. Stay for Keoghan twirling in circles, with nothing but shafts of late afternoon light and the entirety of what God gave him expressing the bliss of going from pretender to predator.
Emerald Fennell’s follow-up, as writer and director, to Promising Young Woman, Saltburn is another stylishly glib exercise, entertaining and engagingly acted until the bottom falls out.
It’s steamy and transgressive in a straightforward way, an in-your-face bacchanal of sex and violence of the kind Fennell so delights in depicting. But as the film barrels toward its bonkers but highly predictable twist, the shine on Saltburn begins to fade.
Be it sexuality, gender, class, age, or race, there’s scarcely a hot-button issue of identity that Emerald Fennell won’t invoke to amplify the stakes of an obvious metaphor.
Saltburn is a remarkable combination of smart and stupid. Its problem is that it’s superficially smart and deeply stupid. It’s clever and amusing in 20 different ways, but when it really matters, it descends into ridiculousness.
Coming into this, all I knew of Emerald Fennel was her work on Killing Eve’s second season, which I found pleasantly sharp and surprisingly dark. She seems to have dialed up her eccentric, picturesque love of the macabre to a whole other scale for ‘Saltburn.’ For only her second feature film, it’s remarkably confident in what its showing, growing bolder and bolder by the scene. The start and end of the movie feel like two entirely separate entities. But the progression feels very organic, or as organic as you can get in an insane bats**t Fennel screenplay. The weaving of one genre tone to the other should feel jarring given how satirical this movie gets at times, but it pulls you back in with another emotional gut tug. By the end, if you’re not too emotionally whipped by this British middle-class beast, it may be worth thinking if Fennel has a second Oscar nom on the horizon. I certainly won’t be complaining.
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Confronted with such a foreseeable storyline, Saltburn goes for the equally predictable style over substance.Based on all the buzz surrounding this movie, I had pretty much anticipated where I was getting myself into, so what intrigued me most about its narrative was to see if there would be some kind of flashier twist, but that never materializes. That doesn't necessarily imply something negative; a story can be told multiple times and still captivate an audience, and Saltburn pulls it off, with incredible restraint, but it does. After all, watching you invite a cancer into your home and consume its inhabitants one by one, remains a subtly gripping and entertaining experience, even if it lacks surprises or fails to create a lasting impression — though, I admit, it does looks nice. Moreover, it reaffirms what a great actor Barry Keoghan is destined to become.
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There’s **** movie in here but the plot and character development needs work. It’s basically a weak ripoff of the talented mr ripley. Not much interesting going on but the shots are good and some scenes will inadvertently make you wonder a little bit
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Awards
Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Savannah Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination
