As a targeted piece of provocation, Emerald Fennel’s Promising Young Woman is a zeitgeist bullseye. A scathing condemnation of rape culture pitched as a darkly comic thriller for the #MeToo era, it features a never better Carey Mulligan as an avenging angel on a…
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The chief reason to see Another Round is a terrific performance from Mads Mikkelsen, teaming up once again with The Hunt director Thomas Vinterberg for a Danish drama with a provocative premise—what if the answer to a mid-life crisis is to forego antidepressants and…
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Netflix and Ryan Murphy’s exuberant new movie adaptation of the 2016 Broadway hit The Prom, about a troupe of down-on-their-luck Broadway babies turned social justice warriors swooping into rural Indiana to save a high school prom from cancellation, is a broad, tongue-firmly-in-cheek confection both…
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