Promising Young Woman

Name: Promising Young Woman
Released: 2021-12-3
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Laverne Cox, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton

2020

91%

Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman... until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be: she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

Director:

Emerald Fennell

Producer:

Emerald Fennell, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox

Writer:

Emerald Fennell

Cast:

Carey Mulligan, Laverne Cox, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Max Greenfield, Christopher Mintz Plasse, Chris Lowell, Sam Richardson, Molly Shannon, Clancy Brown

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: A boldly provocative, timely thriller, Promising Young Woman is an auspicious feature debut for writer-director Emerald Fennell -- and a career highlight for Carey Mulligan.

Reviews

Cinema Sentries

Matthew St. Clair

Promising Young Woman is indeed a promising debut from writer/director Emerald Fennell and features its leading lady in near career-best form.

Ultimately, Fennell's debut is a noble effort weakened by a short-sighted adherence to old ideas of crime and punishment.

I have never seen a performance of this type ever before and it truly takes someone as uniquely talented as Carey Mulligan to deliver it perfectly.

The ending manages to be both so bitter it curdles the whole picture but also cowardly in its crowd-pleasing wish-fulfilment.

Fennell's directorial debut starts entertainingly... but it quickly morphs into an ill-judged exploitation film that doesn't so much subvert the casual misogyny of the genre as as reinforce its tropes.

March 6, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Drama, Thriller
Theatrical Release Date:December 3, 2021
Screen Pass Eligible:No

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Promising Young Woman

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