

- May 21, 2021
Film Review: Promising Young Woman (2020)
Director Emerald Fennell’s debut feature film, Promising Young Woman, is a bold and vivid revenge fantasy and searing take-down of rape culture, misogyny, and self-professing “nice guys.” The absolutely stellar Carey Mulligan weaponizes her perceived pixie girlishness in the title role of Cassie, a thirty-year-old med school dropout dealing with the rage and trauma of her childhood friend’s campus rape and subsequent suicide before the events of the movie. In the aftermath, C