National Critics Group Slams Variety for ‘Shabby Treatment’ of Freelance Critic Over Carey Mulligan Review
review from writer Dennis Harvey, which was written at Sundance in 2020, had sparked online backlash and a rebuke from Mulligan herself, who said in a recent interview that the review was “basically saying that I wasn’t hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse.” It led Variety to amend the review with an editors note and apology.“Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review of “Promising Young Woman” that minimized her daring performance,” the editor’s note on the review reads.However, the critics group objected to the addition of the apology during the height of awards season and defended the critic’s characterization of Mulligan elsewhere in the piece, arguing that the