“Alice, Darling” (** out of four) was an exceedingly aloof melodrama about a woman (Anna Kendrick) in a troubled relationship with her husband (Charlie Carrick) who goes away on vacation with her two friends (Kaniehtiio Horn and Wunmi Mosaku) which turns out to be an intervention to help her realize she is at a crossroads in life. Kendrick is good playing a woman battling a variety of psychological struggles but story isn’t very moving or compelling, maybe because her husband never seems all that difficult or evil. Obvious parallels to “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and other more incisive films about abusive relationships and trauma (“The Burning Bed”, “No One Would Tell”). Directorial debut of actress Mary Nighy.