Wreckers review

A rich unsettling character piece

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Young couple Dawn and David (Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch) come to regret leaving London for the countryside in D.R. Hood’s assured debut. Following the arrival of David’s unstable younger brother (Shaun Evans), long-buried secrets emerge, the brothers’ violent past threatening to engulf the couple’s future.

Foy offers an emotionally potent filter through which everything is witnessed – we discover opaque snippets of info only as she does, while Cumberbatch walks a razor’s edge between vulnerability and something darker. A rich, unsettling character piece.

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Emma Didbin is a writer and journalist who has contributed to GamesRadar+, The New York Times, Elle, Esquire, The Hollywood Reporter, Vulture, and more. Emma can currently be found in Los Angeles where she is pursuing a career in TV writing. Emma has also penned two novels, and somehow finds the time to write scripts for Parcast – the Spotify-owned network that creates thrilling true crime and mystery podcasts.