Writer/director Emerald Fennell helps usher in 2023 as the year that Cinema vaulted back to life, with a transgressive black comedy that splashes cum-soaked mud on corporate cinema with tireless glee.
The filmmaker behind another recent masterpiece ("Promising Young Woman") swings for the fences and connects.
Barry Keoghan is transfixing as Oliver Quick, a social climbing interloper with more background knowledge and cunning strategy than any of his upper class can begin to imagine. The future looks bright for Mr. Keoghan's acting career.
Ranuchy, bawdy, sexy, and unbound, Saltburn leaves a sticky mark on its viewers.
You may be uncomfortably entertained, but entertained and entranced you will be.
Sex trumps violence in the new Cinema of satisfaction that 2023 brings to fruition.
Comic book movies be damned. No one's getting laid there.
Can't wait to see what Emerald Fennell has in store for her audience next.
Class warfare is wet business.
Drop the panties and briefs.
Rated R. 131 mins.
