The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady, which stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, is the worst biopic since Nixon. It's so cautious that it lacks a coherent point of
view, and it's so scattered that it tells you almost exactly nothing.
The Iron Lady, which stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, is the worst biopic since Nixon. It's so cautious that it lacks a coherent point of
view, and it's so scattered that it tells you almost exactly nothing.
Documentarian Steve James has a journalist's nose for a great story. His beat is the
challenges faced by low-income city kids, in this case young Chicagoans whose lives are blighted by the cycle of violence.
Judging by the ads, you might think that this tale of a former high
school prom queen who returns to her small Minnesota town to reclaim her
old boyfriend is a light story filled with big yucks and a happy
ending. But director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody are serving up a dark story about wasted lives
and shattered dreams that coyly takes a few cheap potshots at the
clueless folks who populate a small town.
Alexander Payne's film fancies itself a tragicomic story of spiritual
redemption. But despite the many characters and subplots employed to help build the tale, it is a house of cards.