What She Said is enjoyable, but one suspects that its subject may have found it soft.
Okay, so audiences still aren’t ready for De Palma’s operatic visual sensibilities, but surely critics must be on board by now, right?
If 2004’s Catwoman expressed anything, it was the empowerment Halle Berry felt after winning her historic Oscar three years prior.
With its Oscar clout and inevitable crowd-pleasing matched by widespread critical ire, the film is easily the year’s most divisive awards contender.
Consider Bigelow a virtual lock, tightening up the Best Director field alongside Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Ben Affleck, and, perhaps, Tom Hooper or David O. Russell.
The film emerged from Toronto as virtually every pundit’s Best Picture frontrunner.
What’s left to say of the film critic who haunts all others?
The sci-fi epic that has proved surprisingly divisive for such a gentle movie.