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Before Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” movie released, everyone was talking about it. Vox gives the details of the off-screen scandals here

Audience members gave it a 78% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics gave it a (much, much lower) score of 38%

W Magazine: Yup, there was a real divide between critics (who panned it) and your average Joe (who pretty much liked it)

So what’s going on here? Time has an idea: Sexism. We hold ambitious female directors to a different standard than their male counterparts. It’s not fair

Also, director Wilde had a relationship with star Harry Styles. The Independent said Olivia had to defend her relationship to everyone. Obvious misogyny

Metro: Yup. Styles stans attacked Wilde because of her 10-year age gap with Styles

The NYT Magazine: Social media cursed the movie. It also didn’t help that the film is hugely feminist and most critics are men

But Screenrant says it’s not that deep: The movie sucked

An NBC Op: Uh, what? The movie’s amazing! It’s artsy and complex. Offscreen feuds didn’t affect the quality of the film

A Her Campus Op was also a fan: “Dis on Wilde all you want, but she’s a great director. Don’t listen to the hate -- DWD is a good movie”

And Variety argues that the film was actually helped by the drama: The media storm probably got more people to see it