‘Promising Young Woman’: A Darkly Funny & Wildly Provocative Revenge Thriller [Sundance Review]

There is a scene, about midway through Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman,” in which a man pulls his truck up next to our heroine, Cassie (Carey Mulligan), and throws a few choice words her way, including the one your reallllllly shouldn’t lob at a young woman at the end of her rope.

(You know the one.) Cassie gets out of her car, grabs her tire iron, and proceeds to smash the shit out of this creep’s truck: tail lights, hood, windshield, the works.Continue reading ‘Promising Young Woman’: A Darkly Funny & Wildly Provocative Revenge Thriller [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.

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