Reader Discretion Advised: Review contains mention of potentially triggering topics.
Promising Young Woman was a great movie with a phenomenal lead performance. This movie is about a young woman whose goal is to teach men who take advantage of women a lesson. Carey Mulligan gives the best performance of her career. She has to carry so much of this movie on her own and does it flawlessly. I won’t spoil the story, but she sells every single aspect of her character. The rest of the cast is great as well, especially Bo Burnham and Alison Brie. They both shine in their supporting roles. Emerald Fennell did a wonderful job for her first time directing a movie. The direction is unique and ambitious, the whole film feels like a candy-coated nightmare like I’ve never seen before. Fennell also wrote the script, which I overall thought was fantastic. I had issues with a couple of scenes early on that I felt were unnecessary. Also, I am a bit mixed on the ending. It worked overall, and I loved parts of it, but others did not quite register with me. At 113 minutes the first act dragged on a bit, but the second and third acts flew by. The music choices were inspired choices and made certain scenes hit hard. Overall, I thought Promising Young Woman was a brilliant film and accomplished what it set out to do despite my few flaws.
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