Mila Kunis' new Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive tops the streaming charts despite reviews and backlash
Mila Kunis' new Netflix movie, Luckiest Girl Alive, is topping the streamer's weekly movie chart in spite of negative reviews and criticism from some viewers.
Luckiest Girl Alive, adapted from the novel of the same name by its author Jessica Knoll, follows Kunis' character Ani, who seems to have everything she could ever want. But, when a crime documentary director reaches out about an incident that occurred at her high school, Ani must face up to a truth that could destroy her perfect life.
The movie currently sits at a low 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, though its Audience Score is a much higher 77%. The film deals with the heavy topics of sexual assault and a school shooting, which has led to some viewers to call for trigger warnings on Netflix (H/T The Independent (opens in new tab)).
"Hey Netflix a content warning would have been nice!!!" writes one person (opens in new tab). "Graphic sexual assault and school shooting in this movie and there was no content warning or anything at all?? That's messed up." Netflix does display the rating of the movie in the top left corner when you start the film, though, for "sexual violence, violence, and threat."
"Scenes of assault and subsequent gaslighting – by family and society – exude a raw urgency that viscerally conveys the inner rage Knoll’s onscreen alter-ego Ani (played by Mila Kunis and Chiara Aurelia, at different ages) must constantly hold back," writes Luke Y. Thompson for AV Club (opens in new tab). "But there's a lot more movie than that, and not all of it works as well as those few extremely powerful moments."
"There are pieces of Luckiest Girl Alive that seem interested in a life splintered by trauma, in the relief of unburdening, the hunger for certainty over what
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