In Manohla Dargis‘s rave N.Y. Times review of Killers of the Flower Moon, she claims that Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone “work beautifully together, their different performance styles — Ernest is physically demonstrative while Mollie is reserved — creating a contrapuntal whole.
“[So] you believe in these characters but also, crucially, you believe them as a couple and in the tenderness of their love. You watch them settle into each other’s bodies in bed and, at other times, lean into each other so that their foreheads touch, as if to silently share their thoughts.”
In his Wall Street Journal review, Kyle Smith conveys a different reaction:
Friendo on Dargis’s review: “There are a couple of lines in the review that are almost high camp. Example: ‘Scorcese is not boxed in by obvious narrative cues, and neither are you. That means that you’re never sure where the story is headed or why.’ You can say that again!”
