Promising Young Woman

The film’s take on power and trauma is deeper than the usual pop feminism.

Fennell and Mulligan deliver what they promise, from the design and performances to the tension and provocation.

Mulligan's withering disdain is a thing of beauty.

Whenever Promising Young Woman approaches challenging material, it treats it like a hot stove and snaps its hand back as if on instinct.

The plot definitely has less plausible patches. Then again, because everything's so stylised, the lapses of logic don't grate. And though the upbeat ending has irked some critics, I adored it.

Strong movies divide reactions. The great ones truly polarise. This is somewhere perfectly, smartly, sweetly in between.

Mulligan is tremendous as she veers from fury to powerlessness.

Promising Young Woman is both a fast-paced thriller and a powerful account of grief and retribution.

The reading hypothesis about Promising Young Woman that this analysis proposes is that it is a rewriting of the cinematographic subgenre of Rape and revenge...

In [Emerald] Fennell’s candy-colored revenge fantasy, the heroine wields her femininity as a weapon.