Review of Promising Young Woman (2020) by Katie Rife for The A.V. Club — 15 Dec 2020
Promising Young Woman fancies itself edgy, and relishes complicating the catharsis of something like the scene where Cassandra smashes some douchebag’s windshield with a tire iron after he yells at her on the road.
But while the craft of the film is top-notch, and the writing razor-sharp, its nihilistic point of view isn’t as unprecedented as Fennell seems to think it is.
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This review of Promising Young Woman (2020) was written by Katie Rife and published by The A.V. Club on 15 Dec 2020.
Promising Young Woman has generally received positive reviews.
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