‘Promising Young Woman’ is an explosive debut that mixes fun with fury

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How best to describe Promising Young Woman? I could call it a revenge film. A black comedy. A feminist fantasy. A social commentary born out of the #MeToo movement. There’s even a Paris Hilton sing-along that pushes this into oddly cute romcom territory at one point. But no, none of those labels quite fit. Filled […]

BO BURNHAM’S ‘EIGHTH GRADE’ IS AWKWARD, HONEST, AND ENDLESSLY LOVABLE

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Growing up, I always thought that by the time I got to high school, I’d look like the girls I saw in the movies. Cher Horwitz from Clueless. Veronica Sawyer from Heathers. Anyone from Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bring it On. You get the idea. To my vast disappointment, it was […]