Sterile. Cerebral. Methodical. Those are the best words to describe Writer and Director Cory Finley's Thoroughbreds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Cory Finley uses the clipped dialogue of film noir to heighten the sense of menace.

| Jul 27, 2018

It's sharp. It's clever. It features a delightful final performance from Anton Yelchin...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2018

Thank goodness, the film stays on track and Cooke's character, especially, keeps on confounding us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2018

Elegant, cruel and precise in its commentary on the turmoil inherent in being a teenage girl, the film works brilliantly up until the final act, its mordant, manicured savagery heightened by a primal score.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2018

What a calling card for Cory Finley, and this could be the last outing for its leads before superstardom beckons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2018

No question, writer-director Cory Finley achieves his one clear goal, which is marking himself out as a name to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2018

A deliciously icy noir...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2018

It is Bret Easton Ellis out of Patricia Highsmith, and there's also an interesting touch of Lady Macbeth's murderous MO.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2018

This is a morbid and stylised comedy-drama which takes us to places where few other films about the growing pains of young Americans go near.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

It's a killing movie in all senses. It sways like a cobra preparing to strike; and it is creepily, creepingly funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

Remember the name Corey Finley. This fellow will go far.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2018

Thoroughbreds is delivered generally in a prim, flat style that recalls the films of Hal Hartley and Whit Stillman...Finley is interested in the dark corners of psychology where malice and desire converge, and he generates a surprising amount of tension.

| Mar 22, 2018

I would argue there's some humanity creeping around the edges of Thoroughbreds-and even a screwed up love story of sorts. You just have to remind yourself that all narrators aren't reliable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2018

Thoroughbreds is not for the faint of heart. It's a psychological thriller that explores what human nature is capable of when drained of all empathy and remorse, surviving instead on practised smiles, crocodile tears and self-serving impulses.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2018

For those seeking a wickedly dark little confection, Thoroughbreds should prove a diverting watch; but those looking for anything deeper will find a lot left to be desired.

| Mar 9, 2018

If you don't mind your movies nasty, brutish, and slight, you couldn't ask for a more delectable chocolate-covered razor blade.

| Mar 9, 2018

Finley remains true to his vision, and it's a thrilling spectacle to behold.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2018

Set in the opulent, WASP-y world of teen divas with killer instincts, Cory Finley's deliciously depraved satire skewers an empathy drain that he sees as sadly emblematic of modern life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2018

"Thoroughbreds" is a delightfully nasty piece of work, a sharp, biting, dark teen comic-drama with an attitude to rival "Heathers."

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 9, 2018