Tag: meryl streep

5/10

"The Iron Lady" (2011) is maddeningly frustrating.  You watch the movie mesmerized by the performance of the lead, yet realize, as the movie stumbles forward, that the script and the direction of the film makes it entirely forgettable if it wasn't for that performance.

To be fair, I'm not a fan of musicals--or rather, musical films.  So I was disappointed by "The Producers" (2005), underwhelmed by "Hairspray" (2007), and indifferent to "Grease" (1978).

But I need to neither watch a lot of musical films or understand them to  know the performers in musicals require the ability to sing.  I once