"The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault." Sexual violence and misogyny have for so long provided mainstream film and television with a wellspring of entertaining tropes, that when writers and directors set out to examine their workings directly, they mistrust flamboyance. Some of the most successful recent treatments of the subject are characterized by a restraint that borders on austere: Unbelievablewrestles crime drama into a rigorous, sensitive feminist form; Kitty Green’s tense, miniaturist The Assistant restricts itself to the perspective of the titular employee of a Weinstein-like figure we never see head-on, demonstrating in detail how power obscures its abuses, mutes and muffles all opposition. Jay Roach’s Bombshell showed the pitfalls of attempting a glitzier, more fun approach. When Karyn Kusama and Diablo Cody turned rape-revenge into exuberant comedy horror in Jennifer’s Body back in 2009, nearly no one got the joke for most of a decade.