‘Femme’ Review: George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Are a Bad Romance in This Bruising Queer Revenge Thriller

‘Femme’ Review: George MacKay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Are a Bad Romance in This Bruising Queer Revenge Thriller

In our cancel-happy times, there’s hardly room for an empathy-for-all approach to identity-based violence and abuse. Enter Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s “Femme,” a bruiser of a British queer revenge thriller that plunges straight into the gray areas that can form between attacker and victim. Retrofitting the pages of ‘90s erotic suspense films to a 2023 sensibility, “Femme” stars Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (breakout of “Culprits”) as a Black d…