I Care a Lot

If the film itself doesn't care to deliver on its own promise, it's hard to imagine why we should care at all.

Filmmaking this perversely amoral is never going to be a crowdpleaser, and early responses have been aggressively divided, but I Care a Lot isn't out to be liked: like the best con artists, it gets you caught up in its strut.

Though the film's final scene suggests a clear judgment of Marla's ethics, much of the preceding dialogue sets her up as the badass boss babe.

Rosamund Pike is almost too effective, her delicious villainy too irresistible to completely loathe. From her sharp canary yellow suit to her fearless resolve, Marla may be problematic, but she is fabulous.

The brilliance of I Care A Lot is that it illustrates how exploitation of other humans (regardless of gender) is key to so much of capitalism.

I Care A Lot is a damning indictment of the corruption that pollutes the courts, healthcare, for-profit elderly care and, most of all, state-sanctioned guardianship, which strips the elderly and disabled folks of their agency.

I Care A Lot gives us a reality check we haven't had in a while that will leave us wondering: who are the Marlas of the world?

Cinematically frustrating...

I CARE A LOT IS AWESOME

Within the world of I Care a Lot, a woman and a diminutive man represent the most fearsome predators, putting a deliberate emphasis on how it’s not sinew and brawn that determines one’s position on the contemporary food chain, but wealth and ruthlessness.