(She has one actual friend, an attorney played by Lily Rabe, who notices things Grace does not and pops in now and again, often by telephone, to advance the plot or give Grace someone relatively neutral and normal to talk to. As a therapist, Grace is good at pinpointing how her clients can deceive themselves, especially when it comes to romantic attraction. But while she might detect the mote in others’ eyes, she is insensible to the beam in her own. Similarly, Kidman is fine from moment to moment, but her character is tossed about so, as facts turn to lies and lies look like facts, that a whole person hardly comes together — she seems held together by shellac. (Perhaps that matter was too close to “Big Little Lies” to take up again.)

Source: Los Angeles Times October 22, 2020 16:49 UTC