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Actor: Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron won Best Actress for Monster, playing Aileen Wuornos under prosthetic teeth and thirty added pounds, and Roger Ebert called it one of the greatest performances in film history.

Mad Max: Fury Road gives her Furiosa, who is the actual protagonist of a film named after someone else, and Atomic Blonde gave her a stairwell fight staged as a single take. She was born in South Africa and trained as a ballet dancer.

Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes in Fast X, wearing sunglasses and styled as a Roman emperor character.Brie Larson

Fast X (2023) Review

Fast X (2023) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The tenth entry in a series that began with a film about stealing DVD players, costing around three hundred and forty million dollars, ending on a cliffhanger, and…

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Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in a scene from the 2003 film, wearing the character's distinctive appearance andBruce Dern

Monster (2003) Review

Monster (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Charlize Theron gained weight, wore prosthetic teeth and won an Academy Award, and the performance underneath all of that is better than the transformation it became famous for. The…

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The Devil's Advocate (1997) film posterAl Pacino

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

The Devil's Advocate is Taylor Hackford's 1997 American supernatural legal thriller adapting Andrew Neiderman's 1990 novel. The work is one of the principal supernatural legal thrillers ever produced and one of the strongest Pacino late-career performances.

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The Italian Job (2003) film posterCharlize Theron

The Italian Job (2003) Review

The production closed the intersection for seven days, used 300 cars to recreate the gridlock, and ran the sequence with the kind of practical-effects commitment most modern action films have stopped attempting. Gary Gray made a film that loves its…

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Prometheus (2012) film posterCharlize Theron

Prometheus (2012) Review

Prometheus wastes one of the most visually gifted directors in contemporary cinema on a script that requires its characters to be catastrophically stupid. These are supposedly the best scientists humanity could assemble for a trillion-dollar mission to find humanity's creators.

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