Godzilla: King of the Monsters review – sound, fury and stupidity Read moreThe titular terror is a lonely veterinarian’s assistant, played by Octavia Spencer, a middle-aged women still haunted by a traumatic high school experience. She flips between embarrassing to awkward to creepy to funny to vulnerable with invisible ease, garnering our sympathy before encouraging our repulsion. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Octavia Spencer and Luke Evans in Ma. But Spencer works hard to keep us on her side and it’s her messy, melancholic character work that endures, a portrait of a woman broken and breaking those around her that’s really quite hard to shake. Ma is a few more drafts from perfection but the actor playing her is the real deal.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2019 15:56 UTC