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Summary When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, once supportive exchanges between lovers Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, the couple must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of am...

Directed By: Chloe Domont

Written By: Chloe Domont

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 53 m
Fair Play
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
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Summary When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, once supportive exchanges between lovers Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, the couple must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of am...

Directed By: Chloe Domont

Written By: Chloe Domont

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
74
86% Positive
37 Reviews
12% Mixed
5 Reviews
2% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
74
86% Positive
37 Reviews
12% Mixed
5 Reviews
2% Negative
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100
Oct 4, 2023
What’s perhaps most miraculous about this tight and taut film is Domont’s unforgiving economy.
By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW
88
Oct 4, 2023
I’m not sure the story’s resolution entirely serves what comes before it; it’s not predictable, exactly, and it avoids turning into a different sort of genre just for thrills, yet Domont’s writing and direction are both skillful enough to make me want a few extra minutes in the final round.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 28, 2023
Domont is too smart to go full Fatal Attraction, largely restricting the violence in the piece to the emotional and the verbal.
By Neil Smith FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 22, 2023
If Fair Play spends the better part of two hours tracing this newly lopsided romance to its logical, unhappy conclusion, the blow-by-blow machinations are still a chilly wonder to behold. What gives the movie its driving tension isn’t just the glaring imbalance between Emily and Luke as employees, but a deeper incompatibility between the personal and professional imperatives they’ve chosen.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 26, 2023
Fair Play is a tidy, engaging thriller. It asks questions about the male ego and some of the difficulties faced by women ascending the ladder of power in a traditionally male-dominated field. But, although the movie has a message, it isn’t about the message. Instead, this is a tragic love story that devolves into something darker and, although it doesn’t qualify as a white-knuckle sort of movie, it exerts a magnetism that’s difficult to turn away from.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 27, 2023
It’s an ugly place to be stuck for two hours: a credible depiction of human nature at its worst, sure, but not an especially illuminating one. Still, there’s nerviness here, and undeniable skill. I’d like to see what Domont does next.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 20, 2023
An oddly-dated, obvious and overwrought melodrama about gender roles and the toxic masculinity of Wall Street hedge funders, “Fair Play” is practically a parody of decades of women in the workplace romantic thrillers.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company MRC Film, Media Rights Capital (MRC), Star Thrower Entertainment, T-Street
Release Date Sep 29, 2023
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating R
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Tagline Competition is Close
Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81674326/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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