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This review originally ran in January 2020 during the Sundance Film Festival.

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We are republishing the piece on the occasion of the films release on demand.

The film isnt in danger of dissipating that hype.

Girlishness isnt a contrast to darkness inPromising Young Womanbut incidental to it, the two perfectly capable of coexisting.

Less harmonious are the two modes in which the film operates.

The details are trickled out slowly but are depressingly easy to guess from Cassies evening activities.

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