Foe

Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan are two of the finest young actors but Foe just doesn't give them their time to shine.

It's suffocating to the point where you're as desperate for an escape from this scorched Earth misery as these characters.

These scenes from a marriage are sometimes evocative, but they don’t tie together.

Overall, the film must be counted as a disappointment, though there are interesting ­elements to this futuristic drama.

A literal and figurative hot mess.

I liked the part where clone Paul Mescal gets shrink-wrapped.

“Foe” wants to be a delicate look at how love is lost and eventually replaced, possibly by unorthodox stand-ins, but it’s a rather incurious sci-fi feature that squanders its themes and setup in favour of melodrama.

Garth Davis directs two of the best and hottest young actors in the business, but he cannot create chemistry between them, which deflates the film's romantic vein.

The story feels like a prequel for “Blade Runner” (1982) meets “The Stepford Wives” (1975) except no human beings were harmed in the making of this film.

A film bravely, and admirably, committed to the kind of big emotional swing that unfortunately proves to be its undoing.