Jacob Tremblay nails the central role, with Roberts so beautifully supportive as his mum that you wish she could mother you too. Wonder (2017)Ī 10-year-old boy with a rare facial disfigurement starts school, where he has to learn to make friends and avoid bullies in the sort of heartwarming gush where you start off cynically sneering, but end up blubbing. Roberts with (from left) Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay and Izabela Vidovic in Wonder. Straighten out all the plot twists and chronological juggling and you’re left with less than meets the eye, but there are worse things than watching two good-looking actors flashing insincere smiles and having sex with each other in glamorous surroundings. Roberts and Clive Owen play rival corporate spies in this globe-trotting romcom-cum-caper movie, Tony Gilroy’s follow-up to Michael Clayton. Roberts serves up a shattering display of frustrated rage as a doctor collating information about the mystery virus killing her patients. Ryan Murphy’s film about the Aids crisis in 1980s New York contains all the speechifying you’d expect from an HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s play, but still hits the spot. As the voice of the eponymous spider, Roberts radiates barnyard wisdom in this live-action version of EB White’s children’s classic, and I defy you not to bawl your eyes out. So you think you can resist Dakota Fanning adopting a piglet, or Oprah Winfrey as a talking goose? Think again. This domestic violence thriller with a slasher movie vibe is arguably the acme of Julia’s baggy jumper phase. Roberts plays a wife so desperate to escape her abusive, towel-tidying husband that she fakes her own death and moves to Iowa, where she meets a nicer chap and learns to wear baggy jumpers. Tracy Letts adapted his own stage play featuring endless, tedious truth-telling around the dinner table. Roberts goes head-to-head against a grandstanding Meryl Streep, but holds her own and nets her fourth Oscar nomination as a member of a horrible family reuniting in Oklahoma when the alcoholic patriarch goes missing. Meanwhile, the screen’s most formidable divas (Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine et al) try to outdo each other’s southern belle impressions in this terrifying hen party favourite. “I’ll just have a kidney transplant, I’ll be fine,” says Roberts, winning her first Oscar nomination for her performance as a diabetic daughter. Roberts with Tom Skerritt in Steel Magnolias.
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