Straining For Grit And Settling For Grim, 'Destroyer' Doesn't Deliver
Director Karyn Kusama has a history of films where women fight back. But Destroyer, despite its transformation of Nicole Kidman, fails to develop a compelling story to support that transformation.
After bombing as , Nicole Kidman is currently on a gratifying roll, stealing scenes as a Southern Christian mom awakening to her gay son's plight in , as a deceptively prim PA to a quadriplegic Bryan Cranston in the upcoming, and in television's and . With any luck, Kidman's golden streak has only hit pause with her turn as a rogue cop in Karyn Kusama's dispiriting . As Detective Erin Bell, a, might make you quiver. In you're more likely to ask your date, "Is that Nicole Kidman? And why is she talking funny?"
