At first, it seems that Sacrifice, from French director Romain Gavras, is trying to do its best Triangle of Sadness. Chris Evans, shaggy of hair and beard, plays a down-on-his-luck movie star, Mike Tyler, who is trying to rehab his image by attending a swanky environmental fundraiser on a remote Greek island. He’s surrounded by vain, rich swells — and he himself is one, too. Gavras, working from a script he co-wrote with Pulitzer-finalist playwright Will Arbery, seems to be poking fun at the vacuous postures of the oligarch class, just as Ruben Östlund and many other filmmakers have in recent years.
Before too long, though, Sacrifice ventures off into much stranger, more sincere territory, becoming a drama that mulls over surrendering to a higher power. When the party is invaded by a group of young terrorists led by Anya Taylor-Joy’s Joan (that name is no accident, I’m…
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