Promising Young Woman

2020 • 113 minutes

4.2

64 reviews

90%

Tomatometer

Eligible

About this movie

From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. 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.

Ratings and reviews

4.2

64 reviews

Dustin Banfill

February 13, 2021

Walking into this movie after seeing trailers for it, I thought I was walking into a fairly typical revenge movie. Thankfully it is not that, it's a thoughtful script and the director knew what they were doing playing around with several tropes of the genre. At first I thought the end would get comically bloody, but it went in a different and ultimately more "satisfying" direction. Great performances, beautifully shot and scored (the violin toxic cover is great) and darkly humorous.

22 people found this review helpful

Elizabeth King

January 15, 2021

Depressing movie........trying to hard to make a statement..why can't we get back to storytelling adventure and scares for the sake of scares. As if life isn't depressing enough we have to watch terrible acting, overplayed people. Trying to hard to make a statement. Terrible ending.......made no sense. Rent the original Godzilla movie and see some real acting....lol

56 people found this review helpful

Meaghan Mc

January 18, 2021

An interesting thriller that takes some great turns as the story goes. The methods of the main character are unconventional to the genre, which makes it all the more captivatimg to see how our protagonist decides to handle things. Also, has a lot more character study-esque content that most other revenge plots I've seen, going into the personal cost of revenge. Warning: you'll either love or hate the end. I've seen no in between.

7 people found this review helpful

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