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Promising Young Woman

2020

Emerald Fennell

Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton ...

6.9

19,805

Thriller. Drama Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman… until something abruptly derailed her future. Nothing in Cassie’s life is as it appears: she’s smart, cunning, and living a double life by night. Now, Cassie has a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling take on revenge.

	Media	Author	Review
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Don't let the darkness of Emerald Fennell's twisted directorial debut scare you off. There's plenty of pleasure to be found in its bruising, pitch black humor."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A gutsy and pertinent debut (...) Fennell’s film could be called a polemic, but dramatically it’s so sharply and boldly laid out that its narrative shocks rule the day"
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"[An] unclassifiable, somewhat uneven but always compelling mix of thriller, black comedy and a whole lot of whatnot"
		Matt Goldberg Collider	"With an unforgettable lead performance from Carey Mulligan, 'Promising Young Woman' is like a Valkyrie cry that will leave your ears ringing."
		Monica Castillo The Wrap	"A twisted tale of trauma and revenge with so many surprises that it may be hard to guess where the movie is going at times (...) there’s still a lot of promise in Fennell’s film,"
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"A truly discomfiting blend of revenge thriller and darkest of dark comedy (...) a 'Ms. 45' for the #MeToo era."
		Jason Bailey The Playlist	"Fennell is playing with dynamite here, and knows it (...) It’s provocative, gleefully subversive, and – if I may – ballsy"
		Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"We can thank Mulligan for helping to bring such emotional weight to Fennell’s weird material"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"'Promising Young Woman' is not a movie that seems destined for awards attention, but Mulligan is so insistently good in it that maybe she can become a rare contender from a genre film."
		Angie Han Mashable	"[It] punches its way through rape culture with perfectly manicured nails and a sardonic lipstick smile, and in the end, you may find you're the one who comes out bruised."
		Peter Travers ABC News	"Fennell wants us to laugh at 'Promising Young Woman.' She also wants those laughs to stick in our throats. Mission accomplished."
		Sara Stewart New York Post	"A howl of rage at sexual predators (...) Blistering horror-comedy (...) By turns acidly funny and genuinely upsetting (...) 'Promising Young Woman' is one hell of a feature writing/directing debut (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Promising Young Woman' is as confident as its protagonist, a film that’s willing to be a little messy and inconsistent in a way that reflects Cassie’s existence (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Sophie Monks Kaufman Empire	"An ambitious, original and surprisingly emotional calling card from Emerald Fennell, with a ferociously great Carey Mulligan performance and a theme that couldn’t belong more to this cultural moment (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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