The Perfection

Charlotte was once a gifted cellist, but she left her training behind and returned home to care for her ill mother. Now, a decade later, she seeks out her former mentors, who are working in China with a new protégée, Elizabeth. Although the two musicians differ greatly, an intense and uneasy rivalry forms between them, drawing them into a dangerous course of events.

The Perfection is a 2018 American drama, horror and thriller directed by Richard Shepard, who also wrote the screenplay with Eric C. Charmelo and Nicole Snyder and produced with Bill Block and Stacey Reiss. It is Shepard's sixth feature, following Dom Hemingway. Allison Williams plays Charlotte and Logan Browning plays Lizzie, with Steven Weber as Anton, Alaina Huffman as Paloma, and Molly Grace and Milah Thompson as the younger versions of the two leads, among 32 credited cast members. The film runs 90 minutes.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.2 from around 53,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4 from roughly 1,500 votes. A critics' rating of 6.5 from 99 reviews places it slightly above both audience scores.