REVIEW: Cherry [2021]

You don’t have to ever be sorry for the way you feel. There’s a heavy scene towards the beginning of Anthony and Joe Russo‘s Cherry wherein an obviously traumatized Emily (Ciara Bravo) subconsciously botches an attempt at saying goodbye for good to her boyfriend (Tom Holland‘s nameless protagonist). The script (written by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg) very quickly glossed over the young woman’s domestic abuse-created PTSD that has her ready to flee after he tells her he loves her (treating it more as a catalyst for why he joins…

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