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Good performances aren’t enough to make up for the shortcomings in the entertaining and shocking “Saltburn” by Emerald Fennell.

Emerald Fennell's sophomore directorial effort is a pitch black comedy and psychological thriller with a stellar lead performance from Barry Keoghan.

Even if you didn't know beforehand, it's pretty clear from the vividly rendered Oxford scenes that the director attended Oxford herself, and her scenes of student life at that storied institution, seen through outsider Oliver, form the most authentic-feeling part of the film.

The actor Jacob Elordi—an alum of “Euphoria” and the“Kissing Booth” rom-com trilogy—takes his place as a modern-day matinee idol in Emerald Fennell’s film “Saltburn.”

Fennell tells the story of Oliver, a freshman on scholarship at Oxford who longs to fit in with the privileged elite.

If atmosphere is what you want in a movie, Emerald Fennell’s psychological thriller “Saltburn” has enough to fill a multiplex all by itself.

After Barry Keoghan won an Oscar nomination last year for his work as the cop’s abused and ill-fated son in The Banshees of Inisherin, people learned about his tortured past. This short-statured actor with a busted nose had gone from being orphaned at 12 and bouncing around foster homes to international stardom.

An outsider penetrates the inner circle of an eccentric aristocratic family in this uneven drama that veers from posh Bacchanalian revelry to something darker.

Now that the psychosexual thriller is in theaters, writer-director Emerald Fennell talks us through her film’s biggest twists, turns, spoilers, and sex scenes involving gravesites…

Saltburn is one of the twistiest, most surprising movies of the year, and the ending needs to be explained to be believed, if it can be believed at all.