Meryl Streep

Anthony Stewart Head

Harry Lloyd

Jim Broadbent

Susan Brown

Alice da Cunha

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Iain Glen

Alexandra Roach

Victoria Bewick

Olivia Colman

Eloise Webb

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Michael Culkin

Michael Cochrane

Nicholas Farrell

John Sessions

David Westhead

Julian Wadham

Richard E. Grant

Roger Allam

Stephen Boxer

Simon Chandler

Michael Pennington

Andrew Havill

Matthew Marsh

Nicholas Jones

David Rintoul

Pip Torrens

Michael Maloney

Robert Portal

Angela Curran

David Cann

Rupert Vansittart

Stephanie Jacob

Martin Wimbush

Clifford Rose

Jeremy Clyde

Richard Syms

Robin Kermode

Michael Elwyn

Jeremy Child

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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