Start writing that acceptance speech, Renee.
It worked for Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Eddie Redmayne, Daniel Day-Lewis and Colin Firth not to mention Meryl Streep and Olivia Colman. Yep, the Academy has given a lot of love to performers in biopics in the 2010s.
So standing out in that crowd means doing something special and you are that special something.
I mean a bio pic is a bio pic. It's a colour by numbers approach to story telling which gives the film-maker only so much wiggle room. Flashbacks are inevitable, because we don't want to wait through all those formative years until the star in the titular role appears on screen.
But Judy was a star and so is Renee. She doesn't try to be Judy but she sure captures her essence. And this film looks beautiful. You want to watch. I cried in spite of myself even though we all knew how it was going to end.
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