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Anne H's Monster movie "Colossal"gets praised.Fut Oscar nom?
Synopsis: Gloria (Anne Hathaway) drinks too hard and parties too much. Her boyfriend has enough of it and throws her out. Gloria returns to her hometown, dreaming of making a new start, but instead revives her childhood friendship with Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), who runs a bar. After drinking a night away with Oscar and his friends, he wakes up to discover a gigantic monster rampaging through Seoul and realizes that somehow the monster is connected to her
Anne's acting reviews:
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It has two career best performances in Anne Hathaway (also a producer, and no wonder, I imagine once Hathaway read this script she knew she had to be a part of it) and Jason Sudeikis.
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Anne Hathaway turns in an awesome performance as a slowly evolving character; she’s goofy, pathetic, and a bit of a jerk sometimes but it all rings true. Her shame and guilt over her actions which she may or may not remember, is palpable and instantly relatable.
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Anne Hathaway is completely enthralling as the self-destructive alcoholic unwilling to change her ways until a force greater than herself implores her to demolish her bad habits in order to save the world.
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Hathaway approaches Gloria with a mix of vulnerability and bullheaded recklessness, delivering one of her strongest and most nuanced performances to date.
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I want to take a moment to apologize to Anne Hathaway. Ms. Hathaway, as you’ve grown from precocious princess (The Princess Diaries) and embattled intern (The Devil Wears Prada) to destitute prostitute (Les Misérables) and back again to Disney royalty (Alice Through the Looking Glass), I’ve sometimes judged you unfairly, often attributing your characters’ calculated naiveté to you as an actor, forgetting that perhaps you’re only playing the slim, often stereotypical female roles you’ve been granted. I even mistakenly took your boisterous, affecting turn as a toxic sister in Rachel Getting Married for a fluke. (You know how the broken clock is right twice a day?) But I want to tell you something you likely already know: It was me; it was never you. Because in Nacho Vigalondo’s touching sci-fi dramedy Colossal, Anne Hathaway, you are magnetic — and more importantly, you are flawed and thoroughly human.
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Hathaway is predictably fantastic here, handling issues of denial and alcoholism with tact, while also avoiding the pitfalls of making Gloria unlikable.
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Arguably not since 2008's Rachel Getting Married has Hathaway so vividly embraced offbeat filmmaking like she does in Colossal, a wacky monster movie which made its debut to surprise raves.
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Vanity Fair's Richard Larson called Colossal "my favorite performance of hers since, gosh, I don’t know when."
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The oddball sci-fi film is the riskiest move Anne Hathaway has made since winning her Oscar for Les Misérables in 2013.
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The main reason to see this movie, beyond the novelty of its ingenious premise, is Hathaway’s performance, which grows in surprising directions as Gloria embarks on her journey of self-discovery and Asian metropolis smashing.
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COLOSSAL also marks a return to form for Hathaway, who's mostly cast in big studio films but often does her best work in indie fare.. This is really Hathaway at her best.
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the movie provides a terrific showcase for Hathaway, who gives her fiercest performance since “Rachel Getting Married.”
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79% on RT's so far described as a different movie, unline anything you've ever seen, crazy, weird. Was bought by an unnamed Chinese company and will be released next year. There's no trailer or theatrical poster yet 
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I have not felt this kind of catharsis while watching a film in a long time.
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A surprisingly deft story about a particular type of toxic masculinity that has everything to do with wanting to loom large over another person, to keep them cowering in your shadow.
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Determinedly bizarre, psychologically inquisitive and in the end rather wonderful.
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Colossal is a giant monster movie like none we've ever seen before.
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The result is a strange but surprisingly effective pair of fractured characters who have the audacity to buck indie flick convention and head off into some dark, weird, and sobering places.
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Colossal operates largely as a deconstruction of a certain kind of romcom trope, but it's also a pretty legit kaiju movie.
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Anne as Gloria:
Ugh I wish they'd release it this year to see if she'd have a chance to get any nomination but it wont be released until next year.
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