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Sirens Will Reel You In
Come for Julianne Moore in possible-cult-leader mode, stay for Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock’s sublime sister act.
Julianne Moore is wonderfully brittle as billionaire wife Michaela Kell, swanning around in creamy eggshell caftans and obsessing over whether her husband, Peter (Kevin Bacon), actually brought home her favorite chocolates from Tokyo or — gasp! Sirens pulls on unexpected threads, though, between Devon and Simone, and it uses their squabbles as additional set dressing, aberrations in the pleasantly bland dollhouse Kiki has created for the assistant she treats sometimes like a daughter, sometimes like a lover, and always with blurry boundaries. Positioned initially as a comedic-relief class warrior disapproving of Simone’s arrogance — he has an anti-Simone group text going with the other household staff — he grows into a paternal figure for Devon, gently urging her to get her shit together after she makes an ill-advised pass at him.
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