Meryl Streep

Jim Broadbent

Olivia Colman

Roger Allam

Susan Brown

Nick Dunning

Nicholas Farrell

Iain Glen

Richard E. Grant

Anthony Stewart Head

Harry Lloyd

Michael Maloney

Michael Pennington

Alexandra Roach

Amanda Root

Pip Torrens

Julian Wadham

David Westhead

Angus Wright

Alice da Cunha

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Victoria Bewick

Emma Dewhurst

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Michael Culkin

Stephanie Jacob

Robert Portal

Richard Dixon

Clifford Rose

Michael Cochrane

Jeremy Clyde

Michael Simkins

Eloise Webb

Alexander Beardsley

John Sessions

Richard Syms

John Harding

Simon Chandler

Stephen Boxer

Jasper Jacob

Rupert Vansittart

Robin Kermode

Andrew Havill

Michael Elwyn

Peter Pacey

Jeremy Child

James Smith

Hugh Ross

Chris Campbell

Paul Bentley

Martin Wimbush

Simon Slater

David Cann

Christopher Luscombe

Angela Curran

David Rintoul

Nicholas Jones

Richard Goulding

Matthew Marsh

Willie Jonah

Phyllida Lloyd

Nina Gold

François Ivernel

Justine Wright

Thomas Newman

Damian Jones

Adam Kulick

Abi Morgan

Simon Elliott

Consolata Boyle

Bradley Porter

Kevin Day

Elliot Davis

Annie Gilhooly

Sue Hills

Ian Neil

Barrie Gower

Cameron McCracken

Chris Lyons

Tessa Ross

Peter Gleaves

Lino Carbosiero

Nathaniel De'Lineadeus

Craig Irving

Tim Cavagin

Colleen Woodcock

Anita Overland

J. Roy Helland

Mark Coulier

Marese Langan

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The Iron Lady

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Told by way of a retrospective, Meryl Streep is the elderly Baroness Thatcher who is struggling to get over the death of her husband Sir Denis (Jim Broadbent) and dealing with the onset of dementia that is distressing her daughter Carol (Olivia Colman) and is causing her to forget yesterday but vividly recall the moments from her past that led to her domination of British politics for ten years. Streep does well mimicking the style and voice of the politician, but the back and forth style of the film's timelines robs it of much of it's potency. It is hard to be critical of the woman or her style when she is largely portrayed via the image of the shell that she had become towards the end of her life. You cannot help but feel a degree of pity for her and I suspect everyone watching - and her too - would not have wanted that. The condensed nature of the narrative does little justice to her career - it's controversial highs and lows; position on the global stage, even her downfall is rushed - and the depiction of her life here leaves us with little of substance with which to judge this most polarising of women. It is worth a watch to witness a consummate professional at work, but as a review of Margaret Thatcher or her political career it falls disappointingly short.

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