New on DVD: ‘Promising Young Woman’ kick in teeth of misogyny

“Promising Young Woman”: Carey Mulligan gives a memorable performance in this daring rape-revenge fantasy, the directorial debut from Emerald Fennell, an English actress and showrunner on “Killing Eve’s” second season. Mulligan is Cassie, a medical school dropout turned coffee shop clerk who spends her nights in bars looking for men to take her home. In smeared makeup and too-tall heels, with a convincing head loll, she seems drunk and helpless, going along with their coercions before dropping the act and enacting her revenge, Tribune News Service

critic Katie Walsh wrote in her review.

“Fennell’s film isn’t all that gory, but it has the attitude and tone of a horror movie, rendered in cupcake colors. Cassie utilizes her ultra-feminine presentation of long blonde locks, florals and garish makeup as armor, a disguise, and as a weapon in her war,” she wrote. “It’s a reflection of the film’s internal logic that nothing is what it seems.”

Also new on Tuesday

“Don’t Tell a Soul”: Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer are teen brothers who steal money to help their ill mother, played by Mena Suvari, while engaging with Rainn Wilson’s security guard character.

“Money Plane”: This heist thriller finds a debt-ridden thief needing to do one final job, complete with a team of the world’s most dangerous criminals. Stars Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane.

“Songbird”: Inspired by the health crisis of the last year, this film set in 2024 follows a handful of characters amid a global pandemic. Stars K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson and Craig Robinson.