2/12/2021
Allison Janney toplines a starry ensemble, including Awkwafina and Mila Kunis, in director Tate Taylor s darkly comic look at the culture of fame and the tabloid media.
In the middle of the closing credits for Tate Taylor s new film, the director inserts a minute-long postscript scene. It s an exchange between the lead character, played by Allison Janney, and a talk show host portrayed by Juliette Lewis. Their eyes are wild with a delicious madness, and that brief coda contains all the satiric snap that the preceding 90 minutes so sorely lack.
The story of a woman who rises out of her put-upon anonymity by spinning a tabloid-fodder lie,