The characters behave stupidly and pay a price for it. Meryl Streep's descent into Jewish-mother shtick was at the core of her poorly-received film "Prime" in Playing a therapist with Uma Thurman's character as a client, she encourages Thurman's affair with a younger man until she realizes that it's her own son, an artist.
Various shenanigans ensue as a result, with a variety of lies, betrayals, break-ups and make-ups. William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said "it has the low-budget look and feel of an indie dating comedy — and not a very good one at that.
Is this the only work the greatest movie actress of her generation can find these days? Her oy-vey-can-you-believe-the-kid-and-his-shiksa performance is all studied mannerisms with no real heart t. The war drama "Lions For Lambs" featured a timely message, was directed and starred Robert Redford, and paired him and Streep alongside Tom Cruise. What happened? Redford made a film that he hoped would get audiences to ask a lot of questions, but most critics felt that they had instead been given a lecture.
Mike Massie of Gone With The Twins said said "Strong acting and sharply scripted characters are unable to disguise Redford's opinionated brand of current events, which often teeters dangerously close to Army recruitment.
Weekly said that the movie was "Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers. Also released in , the independent film "Dark Matter" was based on a real-life tragedy where a Chinese graduate student shot his old professor, his rival, and other colleagues at Iowa State University before turning the gun upon himself. Ye Liu played a graduate student named Liu Xing, a curious, likable young man with bold ideas about physics and cosmology, but a great deal of naivete when it came to university politics.
Reyhan Harmanci of the SF Gate said that a big problem with the film was that while it was based on a real incident, the end result didn't make a lot of sense. The character in the film was likable and funny, and his "extreme reaction to [the] dismissal of his doctoral thesis is at best unbelievable, at worst unwatchable.
Using excessive sweat as a stand-in for character development, Xing unravels at breakneck speed. Streep played a university donor named Joanna Silver who "adopts" Xing early in the film. Harmanci notes that "Her character often doesn't seem necessary, but Streep's acting is superb: Silver skirts the line between being a genuine friend to Xing and indulging in orientalist stereotypes, making Chinese culture one of her hobbies. The poster was little more than a simple image and a listing of names — for good reason.
How could Streep have possibly said no? Unfortunately, she didn't, and this multigenerational story about a group of women, regrets, and secret romances landed in theaters with a thud. It was about the friendship between two college friends, involved death and weddings and flashbacks and regrets, and even offered both Redgrave and Streep the opportunity to act alongside their real-life daughters.
Richard Schickel of Time noted the female star power of the movie , asking "Wow, you might think, how bad can that be?
To which one responds, after two lugubrious hours in their company, really awful. Rarely have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lock-jawed mouse. This Phillip Noyce-directed adaptation of the beloved Lois Lowry book that many had considered unfilmable for twenty years was a rare detour into science-fiction for Streep. The problem with the film, which co-starred Jeff Daniels, is that it looked an awful lot like a number of other dystopian, young adult sci-fi films of the era.
This was a fairly cliched role for someone of Streep's stature, as the society in the story had eliminated pain at the cost of wiping out all human emotion with the exception of one person, who took on the community's pain and memories as his burden. Kermode said she was "struggling to inject a note of gravitas into the increasingly exasperating nonsense. Chris McCoy of the Memphis Flyer got at the heart of the problem : "For a film that claims to champion colorful nonconformity, 'The Giver' is depressingly drab.
This Steven Soderbergh Netflix drama was a well-intentioned, ambitious, high-concept attempt at explaining the Panama Papers, a highly unscrupulous international scheme that made scammers filthy rich at the expense of ordinary, trusting people. Soderbergh attempted to dive into these dense waters by following the stories of several people impacted by money-laundering shell corporations, the whole thing "narrated" by two gleeful scumbags played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas who had made out like bandits.
Streep was cast as an older woman whose husband drowned in a boating accident — but the boat company's insurance was tied to these international schemers through a nauseating labyrinth of shell corporations, leaving it impossible to collect. Streep's performance was very impressive, including a powerful ending where she reveals that she had been playing a second character all along in plain sight — then strips off the facade in one long take, stepping out of character and appealing for reform as Streep herself, striking a pose like the Statue of Liberty.
It was the kind of epic, complicated monologue that you could only imagine Meryl Streep pulling off. But was it wasted on a movie that didn't seem to be nearly as competent elsewhere? In Their Own League's Nicole Ackman said the movie "clearly plays off of the style of movies like 'The Big Short,' but unfortunately is nowhere near its clarity, thoroughness, or artistry.
The end of the film was particularly polarizing. When Streep revealed that she was not only playing the widow Ellen, but also Elena, a secretary at a law office in Panama that aided the money laundering, the artifice struck some as too precious for its own good. Alonso Duralde of The Wrap said "Whatever emotional resonance Streep achieves as an angry widow is undone by the decision to cast her as a Mossack Fonseca secretary, complete with enormous fake nose and ridiculous Spanish voice.
It's a jarring bit of show-offery from a performer who should be above such flash. She portrayed former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher , a dynamic and forceful politician who was both admired by some and detested by others.
While Thatcher was called cold and unfeeling, Streep believed that Thatcher "was canny about the fact that in order to be taken seriously, she wasn't able to show certain emotions because she was a woman.
In her acceptance speech, the gifted performer seemed to be especially modest and self-effacing. Oh come on, why her? Commenting on her last Academy Award victory, "I was a kid when I won this, like, 30 years ago.
Two of the [current] nominees were not even conceived," Streep explained. While she may be an industry veteran, the Academy Awards still have a special meaning to this legendary star. The following year Streep starred in the volatile family drama August: Osage County , earning yet another Oscar nomination, and saw the actress taking the lead in the dystopic sci-fi film The Giver. Later that year Streep was also featured as a witch in the screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods , for which she earned additional Golden Globe and Oscar nods.
In , Streep starred opposite her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer in the Jonathan Demme and Diablo Cody film Ricki and the Flash , playing an aging rock star who returns home to reconcile with her family.
Later that year she portrayed real-world British voting activist Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes. During her acceptance speech, Streep warned against intolerance and disrespect and, without naming him, criticized President-elect Donald Trump for his campaign rhetoric and a incident where he appeared to mock a disabled New York Times reporter.
She went on to speak about the importance of a "principled press to hold power to account" and the need to support journalists to help "safeguard the truth. The film paired Streep and Tom Hanks together on the big screen for the first time, leading Golden Globe nominations for both of them and another Oscar nod for Streep. During the event, Streep recalled two incidents in her life involving physical violence — one of which involved chasing off a mugger with Cher — and thanked women reporters for helping to bring forth the recent influx of stories from victims of sexual harassment.
The decorated actress was tapped to play Mary Louise Wright — mother of Alexander Skarsgard 's Perry Wright — who shows up to town looking for answers in the wake of her son's death.
Streep made her season 2 debut with the rest of the Big Little Lies cast on June 9, Following her detour to cable TV, Streep returned to the big screen with Steven Soderbergh 's The Laundromat , a comedy-drama based on Jake Bernstein's reporting of the secretive financial transactions and offshore tax havens of celebrities and world leaders that were revealed in the Panama Papers leak of In December , Streep came under fire from actress Rose McGowan, who accused the Oscar winner of being complicit in the cover-up of producer Harvey Weinstein 's sexually abusive behavior.
Additionally, McGowan derided the planned "silent protest" in which Streep and other prominent actresses would wear all black to the upcoming Golden Globes. Streep responded with a statement in which she insisted she had no idea of Weinstein's behavior. Streep has four children with sculptor Don Gummer, whom she's been married to since Henry b. As of , Streep has been nominated for a record-breaking 21 Oscars and has won three for: Kramer vs. We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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