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Every Amy Adams Role, Ranked
The “overdue” Oscar label risks reducing a vibrant career to fickle awards metrics.
Adams has proven to be a magnet for hip directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, and Marielle Heller, and the real mystery governing her career is what clever shades she will use to color in the great roles still awaiting her. Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority. Sunshine Cleaning — a modest hit back in 2008, more than tripling its $5 million budget at the box office — drifts into quirky-Sundance-family clichés, but it grants Adams the fullest complexity any movie had asked of her up to that point and establishes her as one of her generation’s best cryers.
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