10. Promising Young Woman (tie) (Emerald Fennell, US) Carey Mulligan’s devastating, desperately barbed performance is at the heart of a thriller that flips the rape revenge genre on its head. Every Saturday night she goes home, fake drunk, with a man, and every night they try to make a move. What results is a messy…
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Lucy wants to end things. No, not life, but this car ride. The snow beats down on the windshield, and it’s cold, so cold, and everything just feels wrong. The fastest way out of the passenger seat is to end it, to break it off, but too soon, and it’s stranded in the snow. So…
There comes a time in anyone’s life when they are faced with an event so horrifying, so disturbing, so hopeless that they question everything they stand for. It is a moment of crisis where they question what their purpose in life is. This came to me last evening during a screening of Universal’s latest blockbuster…
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