The Housemaid (2025) review

Living out of her car and desperate to find steady employment (in order to appease the parole office), former criminal Millie (Sydney Sweeney) is hired to be the live-in maid for Nina (Amanda Seyfried), her upper-crust husband Andrew (Brandon Sklenar) and their daughter Cece (Indiana Elle), but she quickly discovers Nina's prone to hysterical fits and the two of them clash (with Nina constantly threatening to fire her) and then she becomes intimate with the superficially charming Andrew.  The framework for this comes from those old tawdry dime store romance books except with a mega-pint of #YesAllMen served alongside, and not even teenage boys are safe because the one gets his head bashed in at a private school for forcing himself on a young lady.  Around midway through, it shifts from Millie's narrative to Nina's, which is nice since it allows the audience to learn about her past (her married college professor knocked her up) and the gaslighting she endured at the hands of Andrew.  I'm not sure it makes much sense upon the slightest amount of introspection, but the lead actresses do what they can to conceal its flaws, and both are afforded plenty of time to show off their grit and exercise their vocal cords.