We count down the best-reviewed work of the Iron Lady star.
She's earned seven Golden Globes, a pair of Oscars, two Emmys, and a Tony nomination -- almost a real-life EGOT! -- but Meryl Streep has somehow never gotten the Total Recall treatment. We're rectifying that this week, in honor of Meryl's star turn as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, Phyllida Lloyd's biopic about the former British Prime Minister that seems primed for a busy awards season run. From comedies to dramas, Meryl's done it all -- and tried on countless accents along the way. Let's take a look at the best-reviewed films from her illustrious career, Total Recall style!
88%
American divorce rates spiked during the late 1960s and continued to rise during the 1970s, turning the broken marriage from a private shame into a national phenomenon. And while our growing fascination with America's seeming inability to stay hitched undoubtedly produced some questionable entertainment, it also inspired some truly touching commentary on modern-day relationships -- such as 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton's adaptation of the Avery Corman novel about an ad exec (Dustin Hoffman) who struggles to establish a connection with -- and later fights to keep custody of -- his young son after being left by his wife (Streep). A classic tearjerker, Kramer vs. Kramer won five Oscars (including Best Supporting Actress for Streep) and earned raves from critics like Michael Booth of the Denver Post, who called it "definitely a movie to watch together -- your kids may well seek shelter under your arm, glad to know their own families enjoy more peace."
89%
A mother-daughter cancer drama with a Bette Midler ballad over the closing credits? As Nigel Tufnel might say, you can get "none more Streep" than 1998's One True Thing. But even if it makes no bones about adhering to the three-hankie weepie formula, this is one case where that formula works: the story of a woman (Renee Zellweger) forced to put her career on hold in order to care for her estranged mother (Streep) after she learns she doesn't have long to live. Will the long-squabbling women develop a new understanding? Was Streep nominated for another Best Actress Oscar? You don't even need to ask. But what might surprise you is how low One True Thing ends up on the schmaltz spectrum. As Kevin N. Laforest pointed out for the Montreal Film Journal, "Thanks to Carl Franklin's clever direction, which always stays real close to the characters, what could have been a TV movie-of-the-week becomes a thought-provoking and touching film."
90%
In 1990's Postcards from the Edge, adapted from Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Streep plays an actress with a substance abuse problem, issues with her mother (Shirley MacLaine), and a terribly dysfunctional relationship with a sleazy producer who takes advantage of her without the slightest bit of remorse (Dennis Quaid). It was a meaty part, in other words -- and one that earned her a by-now-predictable Best Actress Oscar nomination. "In this era of postverbal cinema," wrote TIME's Richard Corliss, "Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy."
90%
Clint Eastwood, master of cinematic understatement, directing and starring in an adaptation of Robert James Waller's best-selling, critically reviled tearjerker? It seemed like a pretty daffy idea, at least until The Bridges of Madison County unspooled on screens in the summer of 1995 -- at which point disbelieving critics were forced to doff their caps to Eastwood once again, this time for finding the smartly tender love story at the heart of Waller's book. As sensitive photographer Robert Kincaid, Eastwood was playing against type more strongly than at any point since White Hunter, Black Heart, but his gamble paid off, and if anything, critics were even more impressed with Meryl Streep's performance as the hausfrau Eastwood sweeps off her feet. It was, in the words of Cole Smithey, "perhaps the only time in history a movie was far better than its source material."
91%
Streep came to The Deer Hunter with only one minor film role to her credit, and according to legend, the screenplay spent so little time on her character that director Michael Cimino suggested she write her own lines. Whatever happened must have worked, because Streep earned her first Oscar nomination for her work in this harrowing classic about the travails of three steel workers (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage) during and after the Vietnam War. Although Cimino was criticized by some for allegedly fictionalizing elements of the war, Hunter's themes resonated powerfully with the Academy -- which awarded it five Oscars, including Best Picture -- as well as critics like Wesley Lovell, who called it "A visceral film that says volumes about the horrors of war and its impact on the lives of typically well adjusted people."
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1924175/news/1924175/
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