The world is full of yoga teachers and paralegals and mechanical engineers.

It is less full, presumably, of female assassins.

(If you’ve ever met one you either didn’t know it, or you’re dead.)

KATE (2021),Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Kate.Credit: Jasin Boland/NETFLIX

And when a follow-up job goes wobbly she discovers that she’s been poisoned, fatally.

(At one point, a murder also casually becomes a haircut.)

Subtle it’s not:Kateis red-meat storytelling, all broad outlines and crunched bones.

And they don’t need any man’s permission to land.Grade: B

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