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Which changes the stakes.
But my editors were on to me.
And so, ten:
10.
Once or twice, Bale suggests that theres a soul inside this morally blinkered authoritarian monster.
Everetts Wilde looks mercilessly brutalized and yet still capable of supreme sexual self-indulgence.
But then, he was Wilde.
Which is how almost everyone feels in eighth grade.
(He doesnt, but his attempt to sound like a gangsta rapper brings down the house.)
The center of a madcap fantasy, he gives a straight-man performance with a marvelously farcical swing.
Carey Mulligan,Wildlife
Its the screen performance weve been waiting for from this always first-rate stage actress.
First, shes a well-coiffed 50s-style homemaker its as if the character is playing a part.
Then, as the character becomes unglued, Mulligan executes hairpin emotional turns that leave you agog and unnerved.
And how she wears clothes!
A widely admired actress, its time Olivia Colman was suitably worshiped.
