Wildlife Is Perfectly Fine

by Erik Henriksen
The past year has offered a couple of big surprises from actors-turned-directors; Jonah Hill's excellent work on Mid90s was almost as unexpected as Jon Krasinski's phenomenal A Quiet Place. Now comes Wildlife, based on the Richard Ford novel and directed by actor Paul Dano, and it's... well, let's just say it's no Mid90s or A Quiet Place. That's not to say Wildlife is bad, necessarily, as it carefully, patiently tells the story of Jeanette (Carey Mulligan) as she deals with an