Don't Worry Darling (2022) review

Housewife Alice (Florence Pugh) lives with her "technical engineer" husband Jack (Harry Styles) in an isolated community designed by Frank (Chris Pine), who runs the super mysterious "Victory Project" program, except Alice slowly becomes aware things aren't right: first she watches a plane crash, then she begins hallucinating and sees her friend Margaret (KiKi Layne) - who's been in a state of distress - slit her own throat.  All the behind-the-scenes drama between the individuals involved in this movie - which includes Shia LaBeouf either being fired or quitting, Pugh getting into heated arguments with Wilde, Styles allegedly spitting on Pine, etc. - is considerably more compelling than anything that's shown on screen (it fails the Gene Siskel Test), which is basically a poorly written version of The Stepford Wives for the #MeToo age: it turns out men are so threatened by "modern women" they have gaslight them and transport them back to the 1950's to have "better control" over them (because having a spouse who's a doctor is the worst case scenario).  Olivia should be kissing the ground Ms. Pugh walks on for keeping this somewhat watchable - she's one of the best actresses of her generation - but not even Flo can save that laughable car chase sequence.