




Rating: R
Run time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
Stars: Annette Bening, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann
Director: Mike Mills
A few minutes into 20th Century Women, you get the sense director Mike Mills could have told the film’s entire story by focusing his camera solely on the achingly expressive eyes of his star, Annette Bening.
As her character experiences the travails of single motherhood to an adolescent boy during the cultural upheavals of the late 1970s, those eyes dance with joy, darken in sorrow, flicker with anger, and mist over with regret—sometimes in staggeringly affecting sequence during the same, long take. I’m not sure why we keep forgetting that the four-time Oscar nominee is one of our great screen actors, but in a year of memorable female performances, this is among the very, very best.
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