Don't Worry Darling: reviews

What the critics say average 6.1 from 4 outlets

• 8.0 The TelegraphRobbie Collin Things keep barrelling along thanks to both Pugh and the plot?s punchy critique of certain recent trends in the internet?s more testosterone-raddled dark corners. With a smudgy red-lipsticked grin, Don?t Worry Darling drags them out into the blazing desert light. Read
• 6.5 SlashfilmHoai-Tran Bui 'Don't Worry Darling' wants to be a transhumanist 'Truman Show', but ends up playing out more like a mostly okay episode of 'Black Mirror'. In fact, 'Don't Worry Darling' recycles a bunch of ideas and imagery from other films, which it attempts to imbue with a fresh, new sociopolitical angle. But it can't overcome its rather simplistic story and a disappointing reveal that ultimately doesn't match up to its build-up. Read
• 6.0 EmpireHelen O'Hara Pugh is superb, while Wilde confidently steps up to a bigger subject and budget to deliver a slick, beautiful film. It doesn?t quite stick the landing, but its flight to that point is fascinating. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw Directed by Olivia Wilde, it superciliously pinches ideas from other films without quite understanding how and why they worked in the first place. It spoils its own ending simply by unveiling it, and in so doing shows that serious script work needed to be done on filling in the plot-holes and problems in a fantastically silly twist-reveal. Read