Promising Young Woman -

Promising Young Woman is deliberately provocative and confrontational. Its content is meant to disturb and challenge the viewer. If you are sensitive to depictions of sexual violence, trauma, or revenge killings, proceed with care. Many survivors have found it cathartic; others have found it retraumatizing.

Upon release, Promising Young Woman polarized audiences. Many praised it as a vital #MeToo text, a necessary howl of feminist rage. Others criticized it. Some argued that the film is too forgiving of Ryan (is a text message exchange really justice for his complicity?). Others argued that the ending is bleakly anti-feminist: the idea that a woman can only achieve justice through her own death feels grimly traditional. Promising Young Woman