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Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 23, 2016
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Leave it to Meryl Streep to bring with her the first awards-worthy performances of the year.  In this biopic of a misguided heiress with a passion for "singing" opera, all three of the main players fill their roles out particularly well.  Streep herself is unstoppable.  Her screeching and squawking never push the boundary into farce but instead truly so…

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