A timely and well-deserved BAFTA and Oscar winning screenplay, and a confident feature debut from former Call the Midwife / The Crown actor and Killing Eve writer (who gives a Hitchcock cameo). (She was nominated as Best Director by both also.) Carey Mulligan gives an outstanding performance as a woman out to get revenge on men in general and in particular those who raped her friend when drunk. Full of surprising twists, including the unexpected key scene in which the rapist's lawyer (Alfred Molina) breaks down with remorse, and she forgives him. And the great scene where she 'kidnaps' the Dean's daughter. The murder seems like an echo of George Floyd, intentional or not.
With Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox (coffee shop friend), Jennifer Coolidge, Chris Lowell (rapist), Max Greenfield (his accomplice, New Girl), Clancy Brown (father), Connie Britton (Dean), Adam Brody, Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
With its strong, almost psychopathic heroine and crazy music (Anthony Willis) has a flavour of Killing Eve to it, but its production design (Michael Perry) and costumes / make up (Nancy Steiner, Angie Wells) put it into an altogether individual place, as does its serious theme. Shot by Benjamin Cracun, edited by Fréderic Toraval (Taken).
Great, black, left field sense of humour:
"Will you go out with me?"
"Really? I just spat in your coffee."
Probably the Film of the Year so far.
To answer my own question, Killing Eve has been a huge critical and public success in the US.
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