Jared Leto won Best Supporting Actress category rival attention for Dallas Buyers Club, winning Best Supporting Actor playing a transgender woman, a casting decision that has been substantially reconsidered since.
Requiem for a Dream is the earlier serious work and remains his best performance.
His preparation methods on Suicide Squad, involving gifts sent to castmates, were widely reported and widely criticised. He fronts Thirty Seconds to Mars, which has toured at stadium scale, and the music occupies as much of his time as film.
Adria ArjonaMorbius (2022) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film assembled from a contractual obligation, released, mocked into a meme, re-released on the strength of the mockery, and rejected a second time. The most instructive failure of…
Angelina JolieAlexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…
Chloe SevignyAmerican Psycho (2000) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mary Harron read a novel everybody called unfilmable and found the comedy in it. Made for seven million dollars, mostly in Toronto, and it is far funnier and…
Ellen BurstynAronofsky's 2000 addiction film. Four people destroyed in parallel tracks.
Bridget MoynahanAndrew Niccol's 2005 Nicolas Cage international arms trade drama. Among the most accomplished commercial cinema examinations of the industry.
Brad PittDavid Fincher's 1999 anarchist satire. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter.
Ana de ArmasBlade Runner 2049 is visually extraordinary and narratively inert. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins built some of the most stunning images in recent science fiction cinema, the orange desolation of post-collapse Las Vegas, the grey protein farms extending to the…
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