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Show all (5)"The Iron Lady" is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
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The "aging-icon-looking-back-on-life" device is one of cinema's oldest, hoariest tricks, especially when it comes to biographies; Hollywood can never seem to resist the inexplicable allure of burying actors beneath layers of makeup and asking them to dodder to an Oscar nomination.
But the new Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady does something unusual and altogether calamitous -- the framing device ends up taking over the entire movie. (Full review)