“The Housemaid,” a screw-tightening domestic thriller, is nothing more (or less) than a garishly fun and effective piece of postfeminist pulp. Directed by Paul Feig, from a script (by Rebecca Sonnenshine) based on Freida McFadden’s hugely popular 2022 novel, the film goes right over-the-top, but it does so in a way that’s unusually clever and knowing. And as a sign of how movies are changing now, inching ever closer to fantasy over reality (even when they present themselves as taking place in “the real world”), “The Housemaid” almost feels like it could be a bit of a landmark.
A few decades ago, a movie like this one would have been about a deceptively innocent housemaid who gets hired by a pampered princess of a wife and mother. The housemaid, in that movie, would start off as nice, then begin to toy with situations in a sinister way, only to…
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