REVIEW | Despite a great cast, controversial The Miller's Girl is merely an interesting misfire

A high school English literature teacher, Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman), starts forming an increasingly close relationship with a particularly talented student named Cairo Sweet (Jenna Ortega), but their relationship edges further and further toward the grossly inappropriate, resulting in catastrophic results.

Let's get this out of the way first: the controversy that has surrounded the film around the vast age gap between Ortega and Freeman isn't just patently stupid, and the inappropriateness of "overly familiar" relationships between teachers and students is literally the point of the film. Any "intimate" scenes in the film were the very definition of chaste. Beyond a short kiss, nothing whatsoever is shown, with the sexual charge of their relationship being delivered almost entirely through what they say rather than what they do. Wild Things, this isn't.