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Echo Valley Isn’t Good Enough to Be a Prestige Thriller
But the Apple TV+ film, which stars Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney, is also too glossy and ambitious to just be streaming schlock.
The movie’s main character, Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore), is the owner of the verdant Echo Valley Farm, where she boards horses and gives riding lessons to the privileged children of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Echo Valley, a thriller directed by Beast ’s Michael Pearce, eventually introduces a more conventional villain in Jackie, a sneering drug dealer played by Domhnall Gleeson, but there’s only life in it when Claire is serving as a complicated secondary antagonist. Kate is in willful denial, smiling and doting and talking about community college while trying not to pay attention to the obvious signs that her daughter’s using, while Claire finds something contemptible in the way that her mother refuses to see her clearly as she is now.
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