Film Review

Blink Twice (2024) — Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut is an uneven tale about men’s abuse of power

When a billionaire meets a waitress at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a vacation on his private island, but there’s something terrifying hiding beneath the facade.

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, addresses what would happen if the characters from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) found themselves in a Jordan Peele horror movie.

Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her roommate Jess (Alia Shawkat) are catering waitresses struggling to make a living in an apartment with black mould. At work, the duo encounters tech bro Slater King (Channing Tatum), and Frida is smitten. Slater chose a more peaceful and honest life working on his charities and living on his island after being cancelled for an unspecified scandal. The next thing they know, the two girls join Slater and his famous friends in his private haven, where phones are confiscated.