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Mar 17, 2020 · Netflix has an incredible selection of movies featuring girls and women who grow up, take risks, kick butts, and take names.
- Haley Bennett, “Swallow”
- Jessie Buckley, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
- Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- Julia Garner, “The Assistant”
- Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of A Woman”
- Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
- Elisabeth Moss, “The Invisible Man” and “Shirley”
- Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
- Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
- Anya Taylor-Joy, “Emma”
The on-screen ingestion — and evacuation — of a tack, AA battery, marble, and dirt is horrifying enough, but so much of what makes Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow” so deeply unsettling is Haley Bennett’s performance as Hunter, a young woman driven to compulsive swallowing of inedible items in response to her newfound anachronistic life as a housewi...
After raising eyebrows with her raw and jangled performance in 2008’s “Beast,” and then barnstorming through “Wild Rose” with a full-throated fire that won her a whole new world of fans, Jessie Buckley entered 2020 on the precipice of international stardom. That status might still be a bit out of reach until she lands a Marvel movie and stops follo...
One of the more powerful scenes in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” tracks a volatile Viola Davis as the title character, as she speaks absolute truth to power about not being valued as a Black woman, instead being seen as essentially a piggy bank. It’s hard to watch that moment and not be affected, especially as a person of color. “All they want is my v...
Though ostensibly about a man (Harvey Weinstein, maybe, or just so many others like him), “The Assistant” is so good because of two women: director Kitty Green and star Julia Garner. This harrowing day in the life of a young woman’s grim office routine makes riveting theater out of the mundane acts of complicity that enable one man’s misdeeds. Gree...
New to film awards contention is Vanessa Kirby, who scored a BAFTA win and an Emmy nomination as rebellious fashionista Princess Margaret in Netflix’s royal saga “The Crown.” Kirby earned raves at Venice for her shattering performance as a woman who loses her child during a grueling (and one-take) home birth in “Pieces of a Woman,” which was scoope...
Frances McDormand never ceases to surprise with her quirky yet grounded performances. But after winning her first two Best Actress Oscars as the cunning Marge in “Fargo” and the fierce Mildred in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” she turns in a career-defining, meditative performance as Fern, who embodies the pioneering spirit of “Nomadl...
It’s hard to think of a year in recent memory that hasn’t featured a tour de force turn from Elisabeth Moss, but delivering two equally riveting film performances in one year is a feat few can claim. Though her roles in both “The Invisible Man” and “Shirley” could not be more different, the unmistakable uniting factor is that both films deliver the...
Cassie is a meticulous note-taker, keeping track of names and numbers in a tidy little notebook she keeps stashed under her bed. That’s for the best, because if someone happened to find said tidy little notebook and its list of men’s names and all those neat little hashmarks, they might get the wrong idea about what it all means. Cassie is done wit...
Marion Davies is the punching bag of “Citizen Kane,” as it’s long been presumed the Hollywood actress was the source of inspiration for Kane’s overbearing and naïve second wife Susan Alexander. Fortunately, Davies’ wit and charisma is fully restored in “Mank,” thanks to Amanda Seyfried’s career-best performance. Sporting an irresistible Brooklyn ac...
Anya Taylor-Joy’s trim and ringleted matchmaker in Autumn de Wilde’s elegant Jane Austen Regency romance is alert, always thinking, responding, and planning. She never gives up as she flounces, charms, and flirts to make others do her bidding, from her devoted father (Bill Nye) to her neighbor and foil, Mr. Knightley (Johnny Flynn), who criticizes ...
Jul 10, 2020 · Here’s everything you’d want to to know about the talented actresses we’ve grown to love — from familiar faces like Kiernan Shipka, to rising indie stars like Victoria Pedretti and Emma Mackey — here’s the scoop on our favourite Netflix darlings. Related: 11 shows to binge watch on Netflix in 2020.
Dec 2, 2020 · The Best Netflix Original Movies of 2020. From a Chris Hemsworth action-thriller to an Oscar-worthy Spike Lee joint. By Justin Kirkland, Lauren Kranc and Tara Larson Published: Dec 2, 2020....
Jan 27, 2021 · Over the last two months alone, Netflix has had movies that star Chadwick Boseman, George Clooney, Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson and Meryl Streep. And the list could go on and on.
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Dec 30, 2020 · There wasn’t a month that went by in 2020 that didn’t see Netflix release at least one legitimately entertaining or fascinating new feature, but we’ve whittled a list down to 10 titles to ...
