After one too many horrorshows this spooky season, I put on this Netflix movie to give myself some downtime. And it turned out to be every bit a horrorshow as anything on Shudder… only I can’t tell who the real monster is. It’ll be fascinating watching people debate who was right, who was wrong, and who should be fired into the sun.

The flick is about a man and woman who work at the same finance office in a secret relationship. When she gets promoted over him, his ego and her drive clash and things get ugly.

All the credit to the leads. Phoebe Dynevor deserves all the future roles she’ll get off the strength of this performance. She’s got the tougher role playing the girl boss who might be a man-eating shark in disguise. She’s the kind of character who will split people’s opinions down the middle. Alden Ehrenreich pulls of some tight-rope work too playing a guy you might be able to sympathize with… when he’s not losing his goddamn mind (Han Solo would never!). They have such caustic chemistry together in a relationship that begins and ends in blood (but not in the way you think).

The whole movie crackles with electric energy from one acidic moment to the next. I barely know what these two financiers do and I was still on edge hoping they’d win… and then wondering what kind of damage that would do.

The movie looks cool and propels itself forward at crackling speeds. The director is Chloe Domont and this is her first full length feature. Hardly seems fair to the rest of us…

I really enjoyed myself with this flick. And I put enjoyed in air quotes because, yeah, it’s tension etched in glass. A solid piece of work for the director and her stars. This film is electric.

Score: 91