This provocative piece follows Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a thirtysomething medical school dropout who lives with her parents, works in a coffee shop ... and spends evenings playing drunk in clubs in order to be picked up by opportunistic men only to shockingly round on them in a calculating sober way to teach them a lesson. The film makes its surprisingly narrow and limited point about toxic masculinity very early on and pursues it relentlessly, yet to its credit the film is more expansive and successful by introducing a possible (genuine?) love interest for Cassie, and as a psychological thriller it creates an intriguing character (with a typically powerhouse and measured performance from Carey Mulligan) that engages all the way through, making Promising Young Woman a robust and thought-provoking film.
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