Blink Twice review – Zoë Kravitz’s thrilling, chilling directorial debut

Blink Twice review – Zoë Kravitz’s thrilling, chilling directorial debut

Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum star in Kravitz’s superbly twisted romance, which takes gender politics into a brutal combat zone

The directorial debut of the actor Zoë Kravitz, Blink Twice is a slickly efficient thriller that turns gender politics into a full-blooded, bone-crunching, skin-flaying combat zone. It’s wildly entertaining – a sharp-witted genre movie that combines the clued-in messaging of Jordan Peele’s Get Out with a touch of the skin-prickling unease of Alex Garland’s Men.

British actor Naomi Ackie is terrific as klutzy cocktail waitress Frida who, in a catastrophic meet-cute, falls at the feet of tech-billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum). He invites her and her best friend, Jess (Alia Shawkat), to his island retreat. But Frida’s Cinderella story is not what it seems, and there’s something amiss in this tropical paradise.

In UK and Irish cinemas

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