Promising Young Woman shows Mulligan in her best role yet.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2024

From the moment the credits rolled, I immediately wanted to go back to the start and press play again.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2024

Promising Young Woman writes a fresh new chapter in the saga on the big screen, a complex filmography made all the more challenging by the cinema’s skill at rendering lurid, action-oriented visuals.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2024

The mix of sensations and ruthless irony fuel a belligerent vehicle towards a patriarchal system that must be exterminated. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 26, 2023

Promising Young Woman is a bleakly funny and razor witted film that pulls no punches in its takedown of modern rape culture.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2023

This is a side of the conversation we have not seen in media and Fennell beautifully nails it to her target audience of nice guys.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2023

It’s clear that the power of Promising Young Woman lies in its relevance in dissecting the normal and mundane micro-aggressions and power dynamics that men hold on women...but from what it looks like, it wasn’t executed to its fullest potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2023

In this pastel, sleek, candy-coated world Fennell has created, Mulligan’s lead performance is a showstopper. While parts of the movie can feel too exaggerated or too unrealistic, Mulligan is the grounding force.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

There’s a veritable prairie dog town of morally complex questions just waiting to pop their heads out of the ground after the applause-inducing ending.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2023

Emerald Fennell delivers a fascinating, unpredictable story that impressively subverts the (rape) revenge subgenre by brilliantly approaching our society's compliant, biased behavior in these sensitive situations.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

Emerald Fennell’s movie, Promising Young Woman, portrays rape culture from a woman’s perspective but still manages to depict both genders’ involvement realistically.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2023

Promising Young Woman is my favorite film of the year, and Fennell is my personal choice for Best Director. To come out of the gates with a debut film that takes the risks Promising Young Woman does is stellar.

Full Review | May 2, 2023

For all its triumphs and faults, Promising Young Woman is a distinguished effort by Emerald Fennell commanded by an unbeatable Carey Mulligan.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 20, 2023

The screenplay is undeniably brilliant...

Full Review | Sep 26, 2022

The type of daring, innovative genre-bending film Hollywood needs to make more of.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

Carey Mulligan is outstanding... doling out emotion incrementally throughout the film. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Sep 2, 2022

Promising Young Woman is an incendiary investigation into the complexities of rape culture in America, led confidently by the commanding Carey Mulligan.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Occasionally the tones clash a bit, but I do enjoy watching a filmmaker buck conventions and stick with original ideas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

While Promising Young Woman showcases Fennell’s undeniable strengths as a visual artist, it can’t hide her glaring weaknesses as a short-sighted allegorist.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2022

Humour is one of the deceptively effacing charms of Fennell's screenplay. It is as deadly a weapon as the other tool she employs - the violence, her caustic reading of imbalanced gender relationships and not just on university campuses.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2022