I have more complicated thoughts on this, but it's really good. I think people were anticipating something more overtly class critical, and when it wasn't that they thought it was superficial. But really it's just not about that.

I enjoyed taking a classic story - Brideshead Revisited - and subsuming it in this sort of quasi-Tik Tok, attention-grabbing style. The cast is universally great.

I sort of agree that the twist ending over-explains itself, because everyone watching had already been suspecting it, but I was also shocked by some of the detail it provides. It's hard to say that the ending was a complete failure  

I have mixed feelings about Saltburn. I think a lot of it just didn't measure up to the hype in my own head.

After I watched it I really didn't like it - too many coincidences and disappointments plot-wise. The more I sat with it, the more I liked it but I still have serious reservations regarding it not really living up to its premise. I am glad I didn't see it at the cinema because I don't think I would've been happy walking out. Honestly I was expecting more sex and more clever satire and it was oddly tame with both.

Despite my reservations -
Barry Keoghan deserves every award he gets for this - I hope he actually does win some.

His performance in the graveyard scene alone is so well done!

For me this is not a patch on the quality that is Promising Young Woman, but worth the watch.