Meryl Streep : New Yorker critic Anthony Lane on Streep

In a review of "Elle," discussing Isabelle Huppert:

It is as if she were guarding secrets that no plot can plumb. Who else can match that mystery?

One answer would be Meryl Streep, and in the nineteen-seventies and eighties . . . Streep enjoyed a stupendous run, from The Deer Hunter to Silkwood and Cry in the Dark. Jump to this century, though, and . . . Streep has fronted films barely worthy of her genius, such as Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady, or creaky adaptations of plays, like Doubt and August: Osage County . . . .

The New Yorker (11/21/16 issue)

Meryl Streep is a shape-shifter.

Well the fact that he called "Doubt" a creaky adaptation says it all. And who is this nobody that's going to judge the queen of cinema ?

Yeah, before Elle no one knew/remembered Huppert outside of Northern Europe and suddenly she is compared to Meryl Streep.
And do you think Doubt is a bad film ? The performances are brilliant and the writing is great. Does that mean that you "go with the flow" ? I don't think so.
Apart from that, Meryl is one of the most consistent actresses ever. She has been delivering great performances in films that are good/decent. You may not like them but they are at least decent. Other legends like Pacino and Deniro are doing complete duds. Also, I don't think she can choose better films. These are the films and the roles that are available to actresses her age. All the other actresses her age aren't offered ANY parts at all. At least she gets great parts.

Don't waste your time responding to her. She was molested as a child by her imaginary friends.

You are correct. No performer in American Film history has held and maintained the arch within the establishment greater or longer than Streep, for generation after generation of film makers have considered her as the ultimate bar of achievement.

I do feel, however, that the majority of roles Streep has accepted the last twenty years really aren't any better than roles offered to Keaton, Lange, Sarandon, Weaver or Spacek, but rather it's Meryl's ability to elevate the material above and beyond what it would be played by other actresses that has maintained her position within the industry.

Really, Timmy, this is where you are? You've been on this board for six years with your anti-Streep rant under multiple profiles.

That's beyond Mental illness, for it makes you loser.

That said, if you want to Quid quo pro on internet postings, LET's GO.

Get off the board.

Oh goody. Little red238 writing is back.

If monitoring this one board from sociopaths such as yourself makes me a troll, lol, so be it.

And yeah, I'd say anyone who spends his day, all day, every day on sites all over the web for the sake of getting reactions and creating havoc, yep, makes you a looser in my book. A bit one.

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Well the fact that he called "Doubt" a creaky adaptation says it all. And who is this nobody that's going to judge the queen of cinema ?

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Anthony Lane is a film critic for The New Yorker. In the quote in the first thread post, he praises Isabelle Huppert specifically for her performance in "Elle" and generally for her performances in other, very different roles. He asks what other actor can master such a diversity of characters, and then answers his own question: Meryl Streep. He goes on to lament that Streep hasn't recently been in films he considers good, judging "Doubt" as one of those films. But he judges Streep as having 'genius.'

The New Yorker, 11/21/16: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016//nocturnal-animals-and-elle


Meryl Streep is a shape-shifter.

He's right. It is a creaky adaptation as most stage to film adaptations are, but two scenes in the film, (Streep and Davis and the last scene between Streep and Hoffman), are as good as film acting can be.