Promising Young Woman
A young woman (Carey Mulligan) tries to right a wrong from her past by taking revenge on predatory men. Feigning intoxication and letting "nice guys" take her home, Cassie turns the tables on the creeps (including the likes of Adam Brody and Christopher Mintz-Plasse) taking advantage of incapacitated women. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, showrunner of Killing Eve season two.
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Katie Parker
flicksIn a post-#MeToo world, it would have been easy for first time director (and season 2 Killing Eve showrunner) Emerald Fennell to consider this quite enough for audiences to chew over. Permeated with an uncomfortably cute, candy coloured aesthetic and soundtracked with a droll collection of bubblegum pop, Promising Young Woman initially plays Cassie’s vigilante escapades for pitch black comedy: cathartic, yes, groundbreaking, no.
But Fennell has something much deeper, and darker, in mind for Cassie’s journey, and a very specific destination to which all this is leading—one that may be as divisive as it is distressing, and which, ideally, should remain as unspoiled as possible before viewing.
Brilliant
New Zealand Herald
pressA powerful, incendiary and scarily pertinent film that refuses to provide easy answers.
The Times
pressThis is the Mulligan show, though, and she proves every bit at home with humour as she is with serious drama.
Vanity Fair
pressWritten and directed by Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman is not always surefooted in its style or substance, but Mulligan is consistently riveting throughout.
RogerEbert.com
pressPromising Young Woman is as confident as its protagonist, a film that's willing to be a little messy and inconsistent.
Vulture
pressFennell's film is a vibrant, stylistically precise piece of work, but the sentiments it conveys don't feel examined. It's an acceleration off a cliff when what you'd really like to see is some kind of road forward, no matter how rough.
The Guardian
pressThe film around her has its flaws but [Mulligan has] never been better, fulfilling her initial promise as a young actor and then some.
Collider
pressEmerald Fennell's debut feature is so razor sharp you'll have to check yourself for wounds.
Hollywood Reporter
pressFennell's film could be called a polemic, but dramatically it's so sharply and boldly laid out that its narrative shocks rule the day. It's jolting to witness how it refuses to let anyone off the hook.
Flicks, Katie Parker
flicksIn a post-#MeToo world, it would have been easy for first time director (and season 2 Killing Eve showrunner) Emerald Fennell to consider this quite enough for audiences to chew over. Permeated with an uncomfortably cute, candy coloured aesthetic and soundtracked with a droll collection of bubblegum pop, Promising Young Woman initially plays Cassie’s vigilante escapades for pitch black comedy: cathartic, yes, groundbreaking, no.
But Fennell has something much deeper, and darker, in mind for Cassie’s journey, and a very specific destination to which all this is leading—one that may be as divisive as it is distressing, and which, ideally, should remain as unspoiled as possible before viewing.
New Zealand Herald
pressA powerful, incendiary and scarily pertinent film that refuses to provide easy answers.
The Times
pressThis is the Mulligan show, though, and she proves every bit at home with humour as she is with serious drama.
Vanity Fair
pressWritten and directed by Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman is not always surefooted in its style or substance, but Mulligan is consistently riveting throughout.
RogerEbert.com
pressPromising Young Woman is as confident as its protagonist, a film that's willing to be a little messy and inconsistent.
Vulture
pressFennell's film is a vibrant, stylistically precise piece of work, but the sentiments it conveys don't feel examined. It's an acceleration off a cliff when what you'd really like to see is some kind of road forward, no matter how rough.
The Guardian
pressThe film around her has its flaws but [Mulligan has] never been better, fulfilling her initial promise as a young actor and then some.
Collider
pressEmerald Fennell's debut feature is so razor sharp you'll have to check yourself for wounds.
Hollywood Reporter
pressFennell's film could be called a polemic, but dramatically it's so sharply and boldly laid out that its narrative shocks rule the day. It's jolting to witness how it refuses to let anyone off the hook.
Brilliant
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