Fatale (2020) | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The premise of Fatale relies on harmful stereotypes of mental illness.

Taylor and Loughery have assembled an enjoyable nuts-and-bolts throwback thriller with Fatale. It lacks the prurience of its predecessors but Spinotti's cinematography and Swank's razor-sharp acting take it up a notch to make it a hoot and a half.

Just ends up recycling tired, simplistic, overused cliches about unhinged women into a monotonous and unnecessarily convoluted package.

This not-particularly-erotic thriller may have staggered out of the 90s like the last twenty years of television never happened, but if you're on its wavelength there's a lot of fun to be had

The writing is notably wooden, though the cast is skilled enough this may not register straight away. Once the penny drops, the film becomes a rather fascinating study in all the tricks actors use to bring routine dialogue to life.