Review: Anna Kendrick explores codependent damage in ‘Alice, Darling’

In “Alice, Darling,” the titular protagonist’s friends are a little worried. The movie doesn’t try to explain more deeply than that, answering the inevitable questions by having Alice overhear strangers incredulously wondering about a girl in a harmful circumstance: “Why would she put herself in that situation?” You see in her eyes: They wouldn’t understand. Despite the change in locale, of course, the rot persists: Even in this idyll, there’s the specter of the missing girl, just as beneath the happy front Alice presents, supports are giving way. Apart from one sequence tied to the missing girl and the persistent stress of witnessing how damaged Alice is, the actual experience of the film is not characterized by “thriller” elements.