A review of the new crime-thriller I CARE A LOT starring Rosamund Pike, Eiza González, Dianne Wiest, and Peter Dinklage. Written and directed by J Blakeson, now streaming on Netflix.

Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It’s a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest “cherry,” Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) — a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play — one that’s neither fair, nor square.

Written and Directed By

J Blakeson

I CARE A LOT (2021) Rosamund Pike as Marla. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX

I CARE A LOT (2021) Rosamund Pike as Marla. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX

I Care A Lot: Peter Dinklage as “Rukov”. Photo Cr. Seacia Pavao / Netflix

I Care A Lot: Peter Dinklage as “Rukov”. Photo Cr. Seacia Pavao / Netflix

I CARE A LOT (2021) Rosamund Pike as Marla and Dianne Wiest as Jennifer. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX

I Care A Lot: (L to R) Rosamund Pike as “Martha” and Dianne Wiest as “Jennifer”. Photo Cr. Seacia Pavao / Netflix

I Care A Lot: Rosamund Pike as “Martha”. Photo Cr. Seacia Pavao / Netflix

I CARE A LOT (2021) Isiah Whitlock Jr as Judge Lomax. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX

I CARE A LOT (2021) Peter Dinklage as Rukov and Rosamund Pike as Marla. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX

I CARE A LOT (2021) Peter Dinklage as Rukov. Cr: Seacia Pavao/NETFLIX