“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.
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