User:LancedSoul/sandbox/Deep Water (2022)

Deep Water is a 2022 erotic psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith, from a screenplay by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson. The film stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, with Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Dash Mihok, Finn Wittrock, Kristen Connolly, Jacob Elordi and Rachel Blanchard appearing in supporting roles.

Plot
A married couple who have fallen out of love begin playing deadly mind games against one another with fatal consequences for those around them.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Its good to see the return of filmmaker Adrian Lyne, after a 20-year absence since his last film Unfaithful.

Reception
It received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 42% of 91 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's consensus reads, "Viewers desperately seeking a new erotic thriller might find Deep Water worth a dip, but it's far from director Adrian Lyne's best work.". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".