I said, 'Don't hold back.'" Some critics have judged her jaw-jutting portrayal over-the-top, but Spielrein's case was well-documented, Cronenberg says, and Knightley's version of it is "absolutely accurate".
Robert Ryan's portrayal of an over-the-hill prizefighter who refuses to take a dive and pays a frightful price for his decision is a tour de force.
Mickey Rourke, whose portrayal of an over-the-hill athlete in "The Wrestler" has already won him a wheelbarrow full of accolades, including a Golden Globe, received a best-actor nomination.
The Kremlin in the Putin era has often sought to maintain as much sway over the portrayal of history as over the governing of the country.
"This is the modern equivalent of using blackface to represent a minority," the petition claims, asserting that the portrayal is "an over-the-top, cartoonish mockery of androgyne/trans/non-binary individuals".
This fact alone should make her the favourite to get this year's nod for her magisterial (if over-stylised) portrayal of the TV chef Julia Childs in Julia & Julia.
Even Wolff's critics seem to accept that his over-all portrayal of a dispirited, demoralized White House, where many senior aides loathed and feared their boss, was basically correct.
The film is positioned to be a classic for the natural hair movement, starring the queen of black rom-coms herself, but its dramatic portrayal of an arguably over-discussed topic drew mixed reactions from fans.
