Andrea Riseborough did some terrific work in 2018, but my pick for her finest role is the title character in Nancy<\/em><\/strong>, an impressive indie debut from Christina Choe. Nancy has a lonely life as the sole caregiver for her ill mother (Ann Dowd). She works as a temp, spinning stories to her coworkers about her unusual travels. She also maintains a blog focused on people who have lost babies to a rare genetic condition, and poses as an expectant mother when she goes to meet a grieving young father (John Leguizamo, in a brief but moving performance). It\u2019s not clear whether Nancy is a willful fantasist or a compulsive liar, but she seems motivated to reinvent her drab existence and draw others into her strange narratives. She becomes convinced she\u2019s the long-lost daughter of a couple whose child disappeared 30 years ago, and embarks on a road trip to meet her \u201creal\u201d parents. Ellen (J. Smith-Cameron in a heart-wrenching performance) and Leo (Steve Buscemi, strong in this quietly serious role) are cautious but hopeful, inviting Nancy to stay the weekend. This dark bauble of a film unfolds with subtle twists and turns, as unpredictable and fascinating as the woman at its inscrutable center.<\/p>\n Andrea Riseborough did some terrific work in 2018, but my pick for her finest role is the title character in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":533,"featured_media":10892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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