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This article originally ran in 2021.
It has been updated ahead of2025s Golden Globesto include Kidmans subsequent nominations, including her Best Performance nod forBabygirl.
The film is, admittedly, pretty bad, a tonal misfire that tanked at the box office.
She made a solid moll, even if the film itself was mostly forgettable.
Dream a little bigger, David E. Kelley!
Thats not because of Kidman, though.
But too much of the rest of the film cant quite match Kidmans confidence.
Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, in particular, veers a little too hard into caricature.
(Both biopic performances, which is very Golden Globes.)
Shes notbadby any means, but she doesnt bring anything new to Celeste, either.
Be honest: Can you remember anything that happens in this season?
(We didnt.)
It was a great time!
(You cant blame her,once you see Dickinson dance.)
Her accent is, frankly, ridiculous.
Jonathan Glazers film is polarizing, and it might be in questionable taste.
Physically, she is in full Mia Farrow inRosemarys Babymode here (that haircut!
), and performatively, Kidman explores grief from all angles how it twists and consumes us.
InRabbit Hole, Kidman isnt your typical grieving mother of a dead child.
A disturbance this great requires an equally sized reaction.
Remember that likability question?
I cant pretend the nose isnt distracting.
But Kidman as Virginia Woolf inThe Hoursis no Linus Caldwell inOceans 13.
A line that blatant could inspire the Leo-pointing meme (See, thats what the movie is about!
), but Kidman punctures our melancholic cultural image of Woolf with moments of surging passion and overwhelming feeling.
She won the Academy Award for this, and she deserved it.
You know, normal stuff!
Shellgo there, if youre willing to go with her.
She does it all!
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