Blink Twice review: 'Stylish and savage enough to gain a cult following'

Blink Twice review: 'Stylish and savage enough to gain a cult following' 21 August 2024 Share Save Nicholas Barber Share Save Carlos Somonte/ Amazon/ MGM Studios Zoe Kravitz's directorial debut is full of "smart ideas, contentious themes, cool images and striking sequences" – but does it work as a compelling thriller? Blink Twice is a mind-bending black comedy-thriller about a young woman, Frida, who is invited to join a tech billionaire, Slater King, on his private island. Blink Twice gets off to an intriguing and wickedly funny start when Kravitz and her co-writer, ET Feigenbaum, establish King's back story in the most contemporary of ways: Frida reads news articles and watches interviews on her phone while she's sitting on the toilet. Blink Twice Director: Zoe Kravitz Cast: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Adria Arjona, Christian Slater Run time: 1hr 42m On the island, Kravitz achieves an almost perfect balance between how enviable the holiday is, and how unsettling it is, between how sophisticated the men seem at some points, and how dangerously stupid they seem at others.