Saltburn - 2023 - 7/10

Oliver begins Oxford on an academic scholarship.
High IQ, disciplined, organized, yet socially repellent.
Not the right class, not really our kind, don’t you know?
Until he is befriended by the charismatic, wildly popular Felix.
Whereupon Oliver begins to worm his way into the social clique.
Straightaway, I wonder if this is a Tom Ripley clone.
It is not, but it is a story of aspiration, envy, dependence, and Olympian indifference.
Barry Keoghan (born to play Elon Musk) is too old as a first year Oxford student, and it detracts.
A taut mystery, with diabolical twists, although not as deep as it desires to be.