Everybody Wants to F*ck Me review – Taron Egerton is hounded in sharp-toothed dating nightmare
Toronto film festival: It’s Get Out meets the viral Shitty Media Men list in this hugely entertaining mix of dark comedy and stalker thriller with a brilliant alternating turn from Taron Egerton Everyone knows an Adam.
He’s not like those other guys, the ones who won’t take no for an answer and speak lasciviously about women to their mates.
He’s doing the work, listening to and uplifting female voices, working at an all-female gallery while being constantly aware of his cis white male privilege.
He has a Mubi tote bag, reads Edna O’Brien’s Country Girl in Hackney cafes, has a poster of Cléo from 5 to 7 in his apartment and has even named his dog after his favourite Haim sister.
He is … a nice guy.
In first-time writer-director Jonathan Schey’s canny debut Everybody Wants to Fuck Me, Adam is also a fraud.
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