Fresh [Movie Review]

Fresh [Movie Review] | You could learn a lot on TikTok. For me, it’s where I realised how many good films (some are, others are debatable) had quietly slipped past my radar. Fresh was one of them.

SYNOPSIS

Fresh (2022) Trivia

• Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jonica T. Gibbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi & Brett Dier
• Director: Mimi Cave
• Producer: Adam McKay & Kevin Messick
• Production Company: Hyperobject Industries & Legendary Pictures
• Distributed by: Searchlight Pictures
• Release date: March 4, 2022
• Running time: 114 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 82%
• Metascore: 67%
• Mimi Cave's directorial debut. 
• The first film released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to receive an R18+ rating in Australia. 
• The title card appears nearly 30 minutes in, a deliberate choice that reflects how dating can feel comfortable and harmless, right up until it isn’t. 
• The film shifts from rom-com to psychological horror to survival thriller, mirroring how relationships can change without warning.

Noa has grown numb to dating apps and the parade of careless, entitled men that come with them. Guys are stupid, for the lack of better words. 

Then one afternoon, while looking for items along a supermarket aisle, she meets Steve, who is suprisingly charming, confident and effortlessly attentive. It feels refreshingly human. They exchanged numbers. Then Steve asks her out. For the first time in a long while, Noa lets her guard down. She likes Steve. 

Steve is attentive in ways that feel rare: he listens, remembers details, and seems genuinely interested. After several dates, he suggests a spontaneous weekend getaway and the destination is a surprise. Despite warnings from her best friend Mollie, Noa says yes.

Steve suggests for them to rest at his place and drives off to the place in the morning. Noa agrees. After sipping a cocktail, she falls down. Steve drugged her. 

When she wakes up, Steve is no longer Steve and his charm was never accidental. He reveals a meticulously hidden life, one built on control, appetite and wealth-fueled secrecy. What unfolds is not just captivity, but for how women are literally consumed, curated and discarded.

Below the surface, Noa meets others like her, women at different stages of survival, each bearing the cost of trusting the wrong man. Instead of breaking, Noa adapts. She observes. She performs. She learns how desire, when weaponized, can also be turned back on its owner.

Outside, Mollie refuses to let Noa disappear quietly. Her search peels back layers of lies, exposing a polished domestic façade that hides something deeply rotten. Her search leads her to Steve's home, which he shared with his wife and kids. He is not Steve, but Brendan. 

Will Mollie ever find Noa before it is too late?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• I love that the movie is being a thriller without being gory and bloody. 
• I was half expecting that there will be meat cutting scenes, but nope. 

What I Don't Like:

• The first part was all lovey dovey and a bit draggy, be mindful of your young ones.  

Will I Watch It Again: Sure, I would.

Overall: 4.4/ 5.0

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