Streep won her third Oscar for this biopic about Margaret Thatcher. It’s hard to imagine too many other actresses who could have done the late British prime minister justice, giving a performance that spans decades, covers both her "iron" glory years and her crumbling into vulnerability and dementia, and makes sympathetic and even heroic a leader whose politics the off-screen Streep probably finds abhorrent. Indeed, Streep is better than the movie. The film isn’t always sure what it wants to say about Thatcher, but Streep never falters.
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