DIRECTOR:
J. Blakeson
STREAMING:
Netflix
After building a career exploiting the legal system to seize the money and property of the elderly by making them wards of the state, a guardian meets her match in her latest target, an older woman with no living family members—but who has some very unexpected and powerful connections. Cynical, dark, and clever, it’s a fantastic showcase for Rosamund Pike.
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None of that is exhausting to watch because, in the hands of Pike, who’s fully embracing those jagged edges in a role that’ll surely be reminiscent of
Gone Girl to viewers, it’s entertaining as hell. But no matter how repugnant Marla is (and she is