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The Wasp

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Heather and Carla agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
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Elevated beyond its stagy trappings by Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer's cunning performances, The Wasp draws blood with minimal irritation.

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Sheila O'Malley RogerEbert.com The script is an airtight lair. Rated: 3/4 Sep 2, 2024 Full Review Ross McIndoe Slant Magazine For better and worse, you can tell that The Wasp was initially written for the stage. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 2, 2024 Full Review Murtada Elfadl Variety Morales wisely relies on his two lead actors to bring taut vitality to the proceedings. However, as he keeps putting in many circular scenes that don’t differ much from each other, the intensity of their performances starts to feel inconsistent. Aug 31, 2024 Full Review Sebastian Zavala Kahn Cinencuentro A pleasant surprise; a British thriller (by a Spanish director) that I knew little or nothing about, but that I ended up loving thanks to its efficient script, excellent acting, constant surprises, and intriguing themes. Full review in Spanish. Rated: 4.5/5 Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Holly Hazelwood Spectrum Culture The Wasp's muddled take on the female revenge story results in a movie without a sting. Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Ruben Peralta Rigaud Cocalecas It is an intimate psychological thriller, which manages to transcend its spatial limitations and offer a deeply disturbing and immersive cinematic experience. [Full review in Spanish] Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Brian Blew my mind! No notes, please go in completely blind! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Dan N Excellent film! New faces, Brit film, great performances. Great plot twists I never saw coming! Highly recommended! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/03/24 Full Review Calvin B WASP WAS GREAT. It had an amazing Plot with a twist that showed vengeance hurt despair and anger. Naomi Harris was off the chain with her acting. Dormer played a great supporting actress as well!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review Kyle Underrated flick. Didn’t see much advertising if any but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. No really dull spots or lagging. Nice build and good tie together for everything as it moves along. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/31/24 Full Review allan m Fantastic movie. Supremely acted, visceral, tense. Touches on some big issues. Nice twist ending. A pleasant surprise. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Robin C “The Wasp” Heather (Naomi Harris) is in an abusive marriage with Simon (Dominic Allburn) and the proverbial straw has broken the camel’s back. She remembers a particularly horrific event from her childhood and contacts Carla (Natalie Dormer), who she thinks has a killer’s instinct in “The Wasp.” Directed by Guillem Morales and written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, this two-hander begins one way and turns you on your ear by the end. This means that there is little to be said about this story of revenge – the viewer should find out for yourself. Heather, when we meet her, is having a problem with wasps in the kitchen and traps one under a glass. The sound of its buzzing makes her crazy until she kills the annoying insect. Then, husband Simon demands that the evening’s all important business dinner be perfect. Things go okay at first, until Heather finds a wasp and goes after it with a hammer, smashing the ceiling and dropping down the wasp nest and bursting on the floor. The dinner does not go as planned and Simon is pissed. His abuse pushes her over the edge and she contacts Carla with a “business” proposition – kill Simon for money. This is where the description stops. From here, the story takes twists and turns that are too integral to the story to give away. What we get are two actors giving strong, and very different, performances. Both Harris and Dormer get the chance to give a distinct arc to their characters, going in opposite directions with one seemingly meek and the other strong. The story twist, I have to say, was not an expected finale, but a satisfying one – in a strange way. B Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Heather and Carla agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Director
Guillem Morales
Producer
Maxime Cottray, Nate Bolotin, Sean Sorensen, Matthew B. Schmidt, Leonora Darby, James Harris
Screenwriter
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
Distributor
SHOUT! STUDIOS
Production Co
Tea Shop Productions, XYZ Films, Paradise City Films, Royal Viking Entertainment, IPR.VC
Rating
R (Language|Some Violence|Sexual Assault)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 30, 2024, Limited
Runtime
1h 36m
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