When Otessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen first came out in 2015, the most common descriptors used by critics were “disturbing,” “shocking,” and “perverse.” The year is 1964 and the shadowy thriller centers around a young secretary at a juvenile detention facility and the influence of a mysterious new co-worker. With a screenplay adapted by Moshfegh and her husband, the author Luke Goebel, Eileen now arrives on the big screen. Thomasine McKenzie stars as Eileen and Anne Hathaway plays the glamorous-yet-sinister Rebecca Saint John. Hathaway has described the film as ”Carol meets Reservoir Dogs.” Seesawing between black comedy and noir, the story twists grotesquely in all the right ways. —Paulina Prosnitz

Eileen is in selected theaters beginning December 1, everywhere December 8