Emily Blunt broke through in The Devil Wears Prada, stealing a film from two much larger names with a supporting comic performance built on exhaustion.
Edge of Tomorrow gave her the best action role of the decade, playing a soldier who is unambiguously the superior of the male lead throughout.
A Quiet Place, directed by her husband John Krasinski, required her to perform largely in silence and in one sequence entirely in pain without making a sound.
She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Oppenheimer, and Sicario is the underrated one.
Emily BluntJohn Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place is John Krasinski's 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a family surviving in rural silence to avoid…
Alden EhrenreichChristopher Nolan's 2023 Manhattan Project biopic. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer.
Bruce WillisRian Johnson's time travel thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt transforming into Bruce Willis through accumulated choices.
Anthony MackieThe Adjustment Bureau earns its 9 by doing something most high-concept films fail at completely: it makes the concept personal without letting the concept. The idea, that a bureaucracy of angelic agents manages human fate, adjusting events whenever people deviate…
Bill PaxtonEdge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
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