Actor: Emily Blunt

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.

A Quiet Place (2018) film posterEmily Blunt

A Quiet Place (2018)

John 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…

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The Adjustment Bureau (2011) film posterAnthony Mackie

The Adjustment Bureau (2011) Review

The 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…

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