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    Promising Young Woman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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    • 1 Charli XCXBoys (DROELOE Remix) 3:36
    • 2 FLETCHERLast Laugh (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 2:43
    • 3 CynUh-Oh (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 3:12
    • 4 Maya BSelenas 3:28
    • 5 Carmen DeLeonHe Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) [From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack] 2:36
    • 6 Donna MissalNothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 3:18
    • 7 MUNANihilist (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 3:25
    • 8 DeathbyRomyIt's Raining Men (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 3:43
    • 9 Lily & MadeleineCan't Help The Way I Feel 3:14
    • 10 Paris HiltonStars Are Blind 3:59
    • 11 DeathbyRomyCome And Play With Me (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 3:08
    • 12 CynDrinks (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 2:30
    • 13 BLESSUSUR EYES 4:30
    • 14 Sky FerreiraDownhill Lullaby 5:32
    • 15 Juice NewtonAngel Of The Morning 4:12
    • 16 Anthony WillisToxic (From "Promising Young Woman" Soundtrack) 1:51

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    " This Christmas. Plan to make them pay."
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    Runtime 1 hr 53 min
    Premiere: World $18 854 166 December 25, 2020
    USA $6 460 965
    Other countries $12 393 201
    Premiere: USA $6 460 965 December 25, 2020
    first day $256 800
    first weekend $719 305
    theaters 1448
    rollout 372 days
    Digital: World March 2, 2021
    Parental Advisory
    • Profanity

      plenty

    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

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    Description

    An unexpected encounter gives a wickedly smart woman a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

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    Production

    Emerald Fennell devised the concept of the film in 2017, and sold the script to Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap Entertainment after pitching the opening scene. In January 2019, it was announced Carey Mulligan had been set to star in the film, with Fennell directing. In March 2019, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, Max Greenfield, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Sam Richardson, and Molly Shannon joined the cast, with Angela Zhou and Clancy Brown being added in April. Principal photography began in Los Angeles on March 26, 2019, lasting 23 days. The majority of exterior shots were filmed at Campus South, part of the Lanterman property at Cal Poly Pomona.

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    Financial Times April 14, 2021

    Promising Young Woman may not always be subtle but it is extremely effective, and the result is viscerally uncomfortable viewing, especially for an...

    Empire Magazine April 13, 2021

    An ambitious, original and surprisingly emotional calling card from Emerald Fennell, with a ferociously great Carey Mulligan performance and a...

    film.avclub.com December 14, 2020

    Promising Young Woman has the bright, alluring sheen of a pop confection.

    indieWire January 26, 2020

    It’s a tricky gamble, and while it doesn’t always pay off, when it does, the only people having more fun than Fennell and Mulligan...

    film.avclub.com January 28, 2020

    Promising Young Woman stops short of a truly radical ending, but only just.

    The Observer (UK) April 20, 2021

    Tonally, with its extravagantly arched eyebrow and lacquered manicure of irony, this film feels oddly dated – a couple of decades out of step...

    ABC News January 22, 2021

    In filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s diabolically funny takedown of toxic masculinity, Carey Mulligan gives a dynamite performance that should make...

    Boston Globe December 24, 2020

    Fennell is a fearsome sensibility and a talent to watch out for, and the arguments you may have after the lights come up will be well worth ha...

    Hollywood Reporter January 26, 2020

    Fennell’s film could be called a polemic, but dramatically it’s so sharply and boldly laid out that its narrative shocks rule the...

    Daily Telegraph November 28, 2020

    Grey areas have never looked so dazzlingly and queasily neon-bright.

    Slate February 18, 2021

    It’s as if the movie wants to provide the audience with the satisfaction of a successful revenge plot while robbing its main character o...

    The Telegraph March 5, 2020

    A wild and righteous provocation.

    RogerEbert.com February 5, 2020

    When [Emerald] Fennell finally arrives at her inevitable conclusion, you will be caught off-guard by her narrative dexterity as well as just how mu...

    Salon.com December 24, 2020

    Fennell’s film is a wish fulfillment revenge fantasy, and viewers who go along for the ride will be entertained. There is an undeniable...

    Detroit News December 23, 2020

    "Promising Young Woman" is timely, uncomfortable and stokes a conversation that is long overdue.

    Entertainment Weekly January 26, 2020

    The tone of Fennel’s script… has a tendency to wobble, more than once. But where takes him – and what it has to say about Cassie&rs...

    Polygon December 17, 2020

    The brightly rendered details and Mulligan’s full-throated performance accessorize a film that ultimately might not be as groundbreaking as Fe...

    ReelViews December 23, 2020

    Is it a dark comedy with thriller overtones? Is it a serious message movie presented tongue-in-cheek? Is it an exploitative revenge film that uses...

    Total Film April 13, 2021

    Carey Mulligan is electric in a blackly comic #MeToo revenge thriller fuelled by righteous fury.

    Fennell’s film is a vibrant, stylistically precise piece of work, but the sentiments it conveys don’t feel examined. It’s an acceleration off...

    Vox January 12, 2021

    Around 10 minutes into Emerald Fennell’s blistering Promising Young Woman, I realized that it would be one of my favorite movies.

    leonardmaltin.com December 25, 2020

    Thisis a female revenge thriller bathed in jet-black comedy, and Emerald Fennel’s screenplay is utterly compelling. It can easily mess w...

    Original-Cin January 8, 2021

    What holds all this, mostly, together to the presence of Mulligan (An Education, Shame) and her own ambiguous performance.

    The Australian January 9, 2021

    This is an intelligent, gripping, important film, from first frame to last.

    Film Threat February 26, 2020

    I like this film because of its nuances and hilarious banter and dialogue, which speak to the soul, not just what’s happening on screen.

    The Jewish Chronicle April 16, 2021

    Fennell cleverly mixes romantic comedy tropes with more serious issues to give us one of the most complex #MeToo narratives we’ve seen so far.

    Times (UK) February 3, 2020

    This is the Mulligan show, though, and she proves every bit at home with humour as she is with serious drama.

    Washington Post December 23, 2020

    Say this much for Fennell: She is incapable of pulling punches. Even when they’re swaddled in the puffiest, fuzziest of gloves, her blows land with...

    MovieFreak.com December 25, 2020

    Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman is the year’s most explosively shocking and forcefully controversial debut. It is also one of i...

    RogerEbert.com January 27, 2020

    I’m not sure the ending lands, and some of the tonal jumps could have been refined, but there’s so much movie here to unpack and discuss.

    Baltimore Magazine December 17, 2020

    Promising Young Woman is like nothing I’ve ever seen. It’s jaunty, downright good-humored, even as it’s wrecking you.

    Boston Globe December 29, 2020

    Fennell is a fearsome sensibility and a talent to watch out for, and the arguments you may have after the lights come up will be well worth ha...

    Thrillist January 27, 2020

    Mulligan turns in a performance that’s near phenomenal as Cassie. You can read into the corner of her mouth her refusal to let her guard...

    The Guardian April 18, 2021

    Mulligan’s withering disdain is a thing of beauty.

    The Guardian April 15, 2021

    I was on the edge of my seat for this, and so much else. The promise of fear is fulfilled.

    Mashable January 26, 2020

    Promising Young Woman punches its way through rape culture with perfectly manicured nails and a sardonic lipstick smile, and in the end, you m...

    Perri Nemiroff (YouTube) December 10, 2020

    Carey Mulligan easily gives one of her very best performances – if not maybe my favorite performance I’ve seen from her – in this f...

    The Film Stage January 27, 2020

    Promising Young Woman is always entertaining and it will linger for a long, long time.

    Austin Chronicle December 17, 2020

    As a subversion to rape revenge films, it’s only halfway there.

    IGN December 21, 2020

    Fennell’s film is a reflection of its antiheroine, a live-wire, exciting, dazzling, and dangerous. Fennell coats this heady blend of hum...

    Observer April 17, 2021

    Whenever Promising Young Woman approaches challenging material, it treats it like a hot stove and snaps its hand back as if on instinct.

    NOW Toronto January 19, 2021

    Manipulative and nihilistic, it forces a ruthlessly honest performance from Carey Mulligan to play along with its provocative, booby-trapped p...

    Paste Magazine December 23, 2020

    It’s the thought put into the writing that leads Promising Young Woman astray: The movie knows what it’s about, but waffles over how to be about it...

    Slant Magazine December 12, 2020

    The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.

    New York Post December 23, 2020

    By turns acidly funny and genuinely upsetting, "Promising Young Woman" stars Carey Mulligan as an avenging heroine for our time, and its gut-punch...

    The Guardian April 15, 2021

    Writer-director Emerald Fennell (a showrunner for TV’s Killing Eve) lands a stiletto jab with her feature debut, and Carey Mulligan is demurel...

    BuzzFeed News April 5, 2022

    The film’s take on power and trauma is deeper than the usual pop feminism.

    The Hollywood Reporter January 27, 2020

    Fennell’s film could be called a polemic, but dramatically it’s so sharply and boldly laid out that its narrative shocks rule the day. It’s jo...

    The Irish Times April 16, 2021

    Promising Young Woman nonetheless remains an entertaining, imaginative exercise in creative score-settling.

    Chicago Sun-Times January 16, 2021

    A smart, provocative, pitch-black dark comedy and revenge movie with an astonishingly powerful, deeply layered performance by Carey Mulligan as Cas...

    Globe and Mail January 14, 2021

    Fennell builds a backward fantasy that feels ultimately cathartic in a very real way, but where its opening tone comes across as far too light...

    Associated Press January 12, 2021

    Startling – the only way to describe Fennell’s vision and execution in this, her directorial debut. And, sensational - a word that...

    LarsenOnFilm January 12, 2021

    There’s no doubt that Fennell has made something that shows impressive filmmaking promise and pulses with real pain.

    Scroll.in August 19, 2021

    Fennell and Mulligan deliver what they promise, from the design and performances to the tension and provocation.

    Wall Street Journal December 18, 2020

    The narrative is telegraphic rather than dramatic, with story points ticked off like bullet points, and the actors (excluding Ms. Mulligan, once ag...

    Screen Daily January 26, 2020

    Promising Young Woman builds to a truly shocking climax that delivers Fennell’s themes with a dark and twisted sense of humour—and justice. It’s a...

    Irish Times April 16, 2021

    An entertaining, imaginative exercise in creative score-settling.

    USA Today January 13, 2021

    Even when you think "Promising Young Woman" is over, Fennell isn’t done putting its characters – or her audience – through their pa...

    The Guardian January 27, 2020

    The film around her has its flaws but [Mulligan has] never been better, fulfilling her initial promise as a young actor and then some.

    TheWrap January 28, 2020

    Thanks to Mulligan’s electric performance and Fennell’s packed script, the movie never feels as if it lags, but it doesn’t go far enough to smooth...

    Arizona Republic December 22, 2020

    Promising Young Woman is a dark tale of revenge, shot through with black comedy. At every turn, it’s almost too much. As is the performance by...

    Variety January 26, 2020

    Still, haphazard as "Woman" can seem, it all somehow pulls together at last with a satisfying smack.

    Vulture January 28, 2020

    Fennell’s film is a vibrant, stylistically precise piece of work, but the sentiments it conveys don’t feel examined. It’s an...

    USA Today January 14, 2021

    Promising Young Woman is a deliciously dark and wonderful combo of style, substance and artfully utilized pop jams.

    Little White Lies January 26, 2020

    Provocative and recalcitrant, it’s sure to spark plenty of debate, but also resonate with anyone who has seen their life (or, indeed, the lif...

    consequenceofsound.net December 21, 2020

    Through a distinct sense of style and riveting performances, Fennell’s debut is as bold as it is self-assured. It eschews the familiar r...

    Vox January 21, 2021

    The film’s use of neon candy pinks, its star’s striking choice of nail polish, the soundtrack, the casting, the drama imbued in every shot, no matt...

    Empire April 12, 2021

    An ambitious, original and surprisingly emotional calling card from Emerald Fennell, with a ferociously great Carey Mulligan performance and a...

    TheWrap January 28, 2020

    Actress-turned-writer-director Emerald Fennell swings for the fences with an unapologetically bold thriller rooted in the conversations about #MeTo...

    The New York Times December 24, 2020

    A muddled mélange of black comedy, revenge thriller and feminist lecture, Promising Young Woman too often backs away from its potentially searing s...

    Slant Magazine December 12, 2020

    The film’s empowerment fantasy of a woman who steamrolls male egos is as stylish and fun as its portrait of gender relations is dire.

    Polygon December 18, 2020

    Those scenarios aren’t exactly nuanced, but [Emerald] Fennell gives a voice to the exasperation of being treated purely, and only, like...

    Los Angeles Times December 23, 2020

    The grimly multitasking finale of Promising Young Woman feels both audacious and uncertain of itself, as Fennell tries to meld a cackle of delight...

    Bitch Media April 23, 2020

    Ultimately, Fennell’s debut is a noble effort weakened by a short-sighted adherence to old ideas of crime and punishment.

    theplaylist.net January 26, 2020

    It’s provocative, gleefully subversive, and ballsy.

    Times (UK) April 16, 2021

    Strong movies divide reactions. The great ones truly polarise. This is somewhere perfectly, smartly, sweetly in between.

    Vanity Fair January 29, 2020

    Written and directed by Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman is not always surefooted in its style or substance, but Mulli...

    RogerEbert.com January 27, 2020

    Promising Young Woman is as confident as its protagonist, a film that’s willing to be a little messy and inconsistent.

    New York Times December 26, 2020

    A muddled mélange of black comedy, revenge thriller and feminist lecture, "Promising Young Woman" too often backs away from its potentially searing...

    indieWire January 26, 2020

    Emerald Fennell’s raucous debut, Promising Young Woman, twists its buzzword-laden, spoiler-free synopsis – it’s a #MeToo rape revenge thr...

    CNN December 24, 2020

    Promising Young Woman combines a promising star and timely premise into a provocative but less-than-satisfying thriller.

    Independent April 16, 2021

    An exquisite yet troubling film… Those looking for catharsis will not find it in Promising Young Woman.

    Time Out April 16, 2021

    After spending the whole movie subverting expectations, it feels like Promising Young Woman tries to have it both ways with a ‘satisfying’ twi...

    The New Republic December 28, 2020

    Promising Young Woman isn’t demonizing anyone, and it’s not about how the real baddies are hard to spot. It’s about more widespre...

    Los Angeles Times December 24, 2020

    It doesn’t all come together, though there’s an undeniable thrill in seeing it come apart.

    Sydney Morning Herald January 13, 2021

    It’s a film that neatly avoids any trace of didacticism. Produced by LuckyChap Productions, the Los Angeles-based company run by Margot...

    Movie Nation December 22, 2020

    The movie is a bit of a female empowerment muddle, with promising young actress-turned writer-director Emerald Fennell rearing back as if to d...

    Rolling Stone December 28, 2020

    The movie is sturdy and stylish, full of ideas and fun to watch, strange as it may seem to say. If it doesn’t always maintain the sharp effec...

    The plot definitely has less plausible patches. Then again, because everything’s so stylised, the lapses of logic don’t grate. And thou...

    Rolling Stone December 29, 2020

    The movie is sturdy and stylish, full of ideas and fun to watch, strange as it may seem to say. If it doesn’t always maintain the sharp effectivene...

    Minneapolis Star Tribune January 14, 2021

    Whatever its flaws, "Promising Young Woman" really goes for it, and that makes it thrilling to watch.

    CNN.com December 28, 2020

    A darkly comic #MeToo revenge tale, the film is elevated by Carey Mulligan’s mesmerizing performance, but winds up feeling undercooked in dev...

    Wall Street Journal December 17, 2020

    Were it not for the presence of Carey Mulligan in the starring role, I’d give Promising Young Woman the shortest of shrifts as a festival of...

    TIME Magazine January 16, 2021

    This is lip-gloss misanthropy packaged as feminist manifesto, clever but not smart, cynical without being perceptive or particularly passionate. Wo...

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    Watched

    The theme of today’s topic has allowed the average film to get to the Oscars. A film that many will forget in a year. The only positive is the performance of Carrie Mulligan. The script is pretty lame.

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    Mulligan did an excellent job, but her character evokes conflicting feelings. Like the film as a whole – an ambiguous ending, an ambiguous combination of plot and visuals, an ambiguous main idea. An interesting experiment, but the Oscar was nominated rather "for lack of fish", according to fem. quota.

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    Great sound, good picture and basically visual style, but… too much feminism and not enough common sense. The director directly hates the whole masculine gender and makes all men drink coffee with their saliva. Art, his mother. Mulligan is scary, yes. Oscar in the furnace.

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    Very non-standard, capable of surprising, but some kind of disappointing psychological under-thriller. 6.5 out of 10

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    Interesting and dynamically presented current topic. In the middle, the plot sags and turns out to be something like a cheap melodrama, but manages to quickly normalize. There are no absolutely positive heroes here, but all men are clearly exposed as bastards. Although, I may have thought so.

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    A very not bad thriller about a girl who kills (or not) men, and she has reasons for this. The main plus is the presence of fanservice. The main disadvantage is all the violence happens behind the scenes.

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    An important topic and a strange implementation. The ending is surprising, although, if you think about it, in almost every film about revenge, this very revenge is destructive for the hero. I didn’t know if I liked the movie or not, but it was fun to watch. Only it’s not a thriller, the suspense was out of place.

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    Well, too naive and cinematic attempt at a revenge thriller on the topic me2. In addition, it is absolutely tasteless filmed and staged. If not for Mulligan (in an atypical, by the way, role) and slightly correcting the situation for the third act, it would be bad. And it’s just mediocre.

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    A glamorous action-thriller in the spirit of teenage emo-optimism, seasoned with a spice of comedy. All this is said in a positive way. Pretty good. The ending is really weird. Perhaps even disappointed. In search of the true meaning, you stumble on a stone for some unknown reason.

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    Watched

    a good film for ordinary viewing. The plot is secondary, script dud, and walking around the genre. The Carey Mulligan effect is eye-catching, but everything else isn’t at the top movie awards.

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    Watched

    The screenwriters either have no talent or brains, the opening implied an acute psychological thriller, but what came out was a disgrace. Everything is in pieces, not logical, not tasty, boring and primitive. I couldn’t think of a dumber ending.

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    Watched

    Interesting topic. The beginning is very promising, and the closer to the final, the more frustrating.

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    Watched

    Is this a nomination for best film? The game of the main character and most of the actors did not like at all. Lots of film bloopers visible to the naked eye.

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    It’s just a shame that despite all the style, flirtations with genres and ironic pop soundtrack (yes, Perris Hilton, I’m looking at you), the film’s plot is deeply formulaic.

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    Watched

    I liked the film, the outcome was unexpected, pleasant directorial techniques and a beautiful main character. Definitely worth viewing.

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    Watched

    Somehow this film did not hold out, either the thriller was not enough, or the drama, it’s a shame, because the base was good! It’s interesting to watch, the end is unexpected, no horrors, you can even with children – but for 1 time. Although I liked it, I do not regret the time spent)

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    feminism is no longer needed, they said, and the comment below only confirms the opposite, and the film is not bad, touches on social topics, but at the same time light, bright and with moments of comedy. Bo Burnham and Carey Mulligan are good

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    A film that will always try to show you that it is not what it is. Yes, and it will not end as you expect. And it consists of several pieces, united by a history of revenge, and they do not fit together well, ruining the rhythm and killing interest .Movie that showed promise, but

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    Surprisingly sad-ended beautiful drama about rape & revenge

    Watched

    A very overrated film. I don’t know why there are so many nominations. Yes, and Milligan’s game is not so outstanding. Absolute average

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    A gloomy movie in a light and light atmosphere, a kind of "pink thriller". Contradictory and with some flaws, but overall it is an interesting and non-trivial story of revenge and self-destruction, told with some talent. With the audience in the end it could have been tougher.

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    i’m knocking the film into the top because it resonates bl. perhaps, showing the situation and its absurdity from this side will be able to influence people, I really hope so. in general, thanks to Emeralda for the film. oh, and the music – chef’s kiss

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    For some films of recent years, you need to come up with a new genre: "Evil". Especially for movies with slogans like this one.

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    I will be in the minority, which is very gone. Dynamic, stylish, with great music and a divine Mulligan (her appearance is a 100% hit). The movie plays cool with audience expectations, and the issue will always be relevant until people understand that drunk sex is evil.

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    Emerald Fennel 's excellent feature-length debut as a screenwriter and director. The film is thin and balanced. As soon as you start to think that the pace has dropped and the twists are over, the next one shoots. It’s hard to watch, but necessary. There is too much truth in this. 7.5.

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