No more Mr Nice Guys: Promising Young Woman puts the romcom out to grass – Sydney Morning Herald

Except that they dont. Every time, someone shoulders her into a taxi, telling her shes OK. Every one of them then seizes the opportunity to push her into sex when she is too floppy to resist. Turns out that they like Cassies friends rapist, like the mates at that party who let it happen and then circled the wagons to defend him – werent very nice at all. Even the young man who gently courts her turns out to have been a bystander at that event: not malicious, but not innocent either. His niceness…

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