![]() But once her “toilet manager” assumes a more prominent role, you won’t remember anything else about the film. Dolly De Leon, “Triangle of Sadness”: You barely see De Leon in the first hour-plus of Ruben Östlund’s strained social satire. or the fierce, fighting spirit that Buckley gives the movie.ġ0. it’s hard to overstate the force that Foy brings to the film’s radical mother. Claire Foy, “Women Talking”: It’s difficult singling out particular members from the excellent ensemble of Sarah Polley’s upcoming demanding drama, but. Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”: In a film dominated by bullheaded men, thank the Lord for Condon’s lovely, bookish Siobhan, a bright young woman possessing the good sense to try to escape her suffocating home for a more engaging life.ġ2. A performance not just to be savored, but devoured.ġ3. From the opening finger-chomping sleepover to the “Badlands”-style road trip with Timothée Chalamet riding shotgun, Russell owns this movie, playing a fine young cannibal shaking off her self-loathing and becoming not just a survivor but someone hopeful that she can enjoy some semblance of a normal life. Taylor Russell, “Bones and All”: “Waves” should have made Russell a star in 2019. Olivia Colman, “Empire of Light”: Would anyone be surprised if Colman earned a nomination, even for a movie that has triggered more than a few critics? Sam Mendes’ sweet paean to the power of movies has issues, but Colman makes you overlook them (for the most part) with a turn that pivots from grief to fury and back again with authority.ġ4. Which brings us to the rankings of women who got us talking, including two from “Women Talking,” in movies these last 12 months.ġ5. After “Tár” premiered on the first day of September at the Venice International Film Festival, more than a few people called the Oscar race for lead actress over and done, sending a message to the motion picture academy to begin engraving the trophy with Cate Blanchett’s name - provided they weren’t one of those people who thought Lydia Tár was a real person and that the movie was an absorbing documentary about the life and times of a legendary conductor who has slept with Kristen Stewart.īut as we’ve seen in the last few months, for women in film, 2022 is not just about Blanchett and “Tár” and long, onstage interviews with the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik.
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