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Mar 8, 2018 · ‘Thoroughbreds’: How a 28-Year-Old Playwright Who Had Never Been on a Film Set Directed the Best Debut of the Year. Cory Finley wasn't even sure he had written a movie — the next thing he...
Thoroughbreds is a 2017 American black comedy thriller film written and directed by Cory Finley in his directorial debut. It follows high school student Lily ( Anya Taylor-Joy ) and her emotionless friend Amanda ( Olivia Cooke ) as they scheme to kill Lily's stepfather ( Paul Sparks ) via a contract with a drug dealer ( Anton Yelchin ) while ...
Mar 9, 2018 · “Thoroughbreds” is classically Hitchcockian in its smoldering homicidal tendencies, yet bracingly current with the spot-on casting of Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke as childhood friends who reconnect and reveal the internal damage they’ve become skilled at suppressing. Yet despite all these comparisons, Finley has created a film that ...
Mar 9, 2018 · Film Review: ‘Thoroughbreds’. Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy play rich kids with a dark side in this remarkable debut from East Coast playwright Cory Finley. By Peter Debruge. Courtesy of Focus...
Mar 10, 2018 · Thoroughbreds is a story of the dark friendship between teens Lily and Amanda and their plot to murder Lily's stepfather. Director and writer Cory Finley joins NPR's Don Gonyea to talk about...
Jun 18, 2018 · Cory Finley’s superbly crafted debut feature Thoroughbreds (2017) is about two affectless, upper-class prep school teenage girls whose disquietude and feelings of contempt rises to alarming levels. The posters proclaim “Heathers meet American Psycho”.
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Mar 8, 2018 · “Thoroughbreds,” a smart, amoral suspense comedy about the high price of having it all, gives us villainy in stereo. With double the standard badness quota, the film isn’t just good.
