Miller's Girl

Miller’s Girl is a stunning debut from Bartlett. The plot is winding and intriguing, with an absolute gut punch of an ending.

There is no hero or villain, only a murky undercurrent questioning whether having a muse is inherently predatory or not. And that story is worth writing.

The putatively provocative and wannabe-controversial erotic thriller “Miller’s Girl” is a sordid little tale that isn’t nearly as clever and literary as it tries to be, nor is it as deliberately campy as 20th century entries in the genre such as “Wild Things” or even “Poison Ivy.”

The movie strikes that wild, so-bad-it’s-entertaining chord vigorously. I can’t recommend Miller’s Girl but I also can’t recommend it enough.

What a salacious and silly miscalculation Miller’s Girl turns out to be.

A work of glaring artifice, Miller’s Girl, written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, is being touted as a psychological thriller, but it’s too vapid and silly to do much besides titillate.

Jenna Ortega’s stark rise as Gen Z’s goth-glam princess takes a pointless, awkward turn in “Miller’s Girl,” a new romantic horror movie about cerebral people that’s simply tiresome.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I liked it, i don't really know why, maybe due to the circonstances and my emotional state at the moment.

Give the camera in the hands of a person who feels so conceited just because he or she uses fancy words and high-ranking quotations and sometimes names authors famous for being known in sophisticated middle-class salons and there you have the goings-on in this film. For almost the entire film these previously mentioned elements make up the basic dialogue between the characters and all of this makes every little discussion between them verbose and heavy-handed. The potentially most interesting part, namely the consequences on the lives of the two main characters of their entanglement, is only hinted at toward the end, and the film is saved from glaring insufficiency only by a few well-done scenes of everyday life.

A provocative student slyly seducing a teacher has been done before and this take offers nothing new. Martin Freeman plays the high school English instructor who's enamored by a smart student (Jenna Ortega). Thus begins a completely predictable path to "the encounter" and the subsequent fallout. Fortunately, first time writer/director Jade Halley Bartlett had the luck to cast this skilled duo. They capture the attraction and confusion with compelling depth. As his faculty buddy, Bashir Salahuddin adds a much needed lighter touch, while Dagmara Dominczyk, as the wife, adds a sometimes intense vibe. Sadly, the script is stuffed with overwritten literary pretentions that only add tedium. Every inevitable moment is obvious, so there's really nothing (other than the performances to recommend this failed drama.

Really, really dumb and bad. Somehow it got made. I cant imagine how or why. I imagine a group of relentlessly pedantic horny 15 year olds got together with a primitive version of a Tiktok AI to come up with the most basic annoying characters in the world. Kids i know its hard to believe but adults in the world dont think and act like this.