It shares a propensity for treating its characters more as moveable, quippy pawns than as real people, a problem that the strong actors can only do so much to fix.

A weird, intense movie that has the courage of its convictions.

The performances are acerbic... Pike's Elspeth is brilliantly cracked.

Saltburn is a sometimes bewildering mashup of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and Pasolini’s Theorem. It is less coherent than Fennell's previous film, Promising Young Woman, but also less constrained, less closeted.