Film Review – Violet & Daisy

Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher won an Academy Award for his first
produced work, 2009’s “Precious,” and now graduates to the director’s
chair with “Violet & Daisy,” which is about as far removed from his
industry introduction as possible. Taking on the assassin genre with
initial hints toward the formation of a jailbait-killer satire, Fletcher
soon loses the snap of his bubblegum, grinding the picture to a halt
with banal stretches of dialogue and location claustrophobia. Leads
Alexia Bledel and Saoirse Ronan show spark and interest to lean into the
shaming Fletcher initially appears to value, but their efforts are
gradually flooded by a helmer who doesn’t quite know what type of movie
he wants to make.
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