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Promising Young Woman. A woman at a bar appears incredibly intoxicated, falling over in her seat and barely able to keep her head up, when she’s noticed by three average guys. One of them, played by Adam Brody, saunters over to her with, he tells himself, the best of intentions. She’s in trouble. He’s a “nice guy.”.
Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Greg Carlson Vague Visages Promising Young Woman writes a fresh new chapter in the saga on the big screen, a complex filmography made all the more challenging by the cinema ...
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- Emerald Fennell
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- Carey Mulligan
Dec 24, 2020 · A hard candy with a sour center, “Promising Young Woman” turns sociopathy into a style and trauma into a joke. Embodying both, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan), 30, a medical school dropout still ...
- Emerald Fennell
- Jeannette Catsoulis
- 113 min
Promising Young Woman is an incendiary investigation into the complexities of rape culture in America, led confidently by the commanding Carey Mulligan. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1 ...
- This candy-colored revenge-thriller offers deranged delights.
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By Kristy Puchko
Updated: May 25, 2021 5:28 pm
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 6:00 pm
IGN serves a global audience, so with Promising Young Woman opening in theaters Dec. 25, we are publishing our review from Kristy Puchko who watched the movie via digital screener. Read more on IGN's policy on movie reviews in light of COVID-19 here. IGN strongly encourages anyone considering going to a movie theater during the COVID-19 pandemic to check their local public health and safety guidelines before buying a ticket.
There's a rage that burns in the hearts of women wounded in a man's world. Again and again, we witness a battle of the sexes that puts our rights, bodies, and sanity in the crossfire. The he said/she said of it all tends to give him "the benefit of the doubt" or excuses sexual misconduct or violence as "boys will be boys," while she is victim-blamed for what she wore, where she was, and basically having a body that attracts men by its very existence. In Promising Young Woman, this battle is staged as a rape-revenge thriller, where an anti-heroine lights the match of this feminist rage, turning her body into a time-bomb that will burn down the bad men and the so-called "nice guys." The result is a film that is furious, subversive, darkly funny, and haunting.
Actress turned writer/helmer Emerald Fennell makes a blistering directorial debut with Promising Young Woman. Carey Mulligan stars as Cassandra Thomas, who spends her days working at a "shitty coffee shop" and her nights on the prowl for men. Like Amy Dunne of Gone Girl, she is both a dream girl and nightmare. Before heading out for an evening, Cassie takes on different looks, the harried businesswoman too drunk to stand on her own, the naïve jailbait with darling pigtails, and the party girl with sloppily smeared lipstick. Each time, some white knight sweeps in to be a hero (in his own mind). He scoops her up, back to his place for "one more drink," maybe some cocaine, maybe an unsolicited preview of his pretentious yet-to-be-written great American novel. Then, once she's passed out or too intoxicated to consent, he'll creep in with a probing tongue and wandering fingers. That is until Cassie drops the act, stares him down clear-eyed and smirking, and hisses, "What are you doing."
Emerald Fennell has channeled the zeitgeist of the Me Too movement into a daring thriller that critiques rape culture and the rape-revenge subgenre. She rejects the Male Gaze that would turn her protagonist's body and its violation into spectacle. While her film is rich in gallows humor, it never treats rape as a joke. The humor here punches up at ...
Dec 26, 2020 · The original version of this review misidentified the actress playing Cassie's mother as Jennifer Connolly. The character is played by Jennifer Coolidge. The darkly comic thriller Promising Young ...
Jan 26, 2020 · ‘Promising Young Woman’: Film Review Carey Mulligan is on a mission of vengeance in Emerald Fennell's arresting, blackly comedic quasi-thriller for the MeToo age. By Dennis Harvey.
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