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Promising Young Woman shocks us all | Video Review

December 24, 2020 by EJ Moreno

Promising Young Woman, 2020.

Directed by Emerald Fennell.
Starring Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, and Laverne Cox.

Carey Mulligan gives her fiercest performance today in Promising Young Woman, a new bold new film from Emerald Fennell. Our critic EJ Moreno dives into all the madness of this possible Academy Awards contender! While the film will likely anger some viewers, EJ discusses how the film works best when it takes down everyone in its path.

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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.

Joining Mulligan in the cast of Promising Young Woman are Laverne Cox, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Max Greenfield, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chris Lowell, Sam Richardson, Molly Shannon, and Clancy Brown.

 

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Alison Brie, Bo Burnham, Carey Mulligan, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, emerald fennell, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Promising Young Woman

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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