Stewart is off the charts, though thats hardly a surprise.
The flicker of her eyelids is a dialect unto itself.
Few actresses can command a close-up like Stewart, whose vulnerability all but bursts through the screen.

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The Guardians Xan Brooks andVarietys Guy Lodge agree.
She says, I want to make a difference and Ive been running from that girl my whole life.
I always wondered if we were doing things right…. like I knew her.

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Anything that would happen on set that was a little eerie, I always attributed it to her!
A little later, I saw how wrong I was.
As an actor, Stewart is a vessel, not the driver of a vehicle.
Stewart hears the language of ghosts, and she translates it for us.
The words are all there, finding their way out through the light in her eyes.
Bonjour tristesse, indeed.
The script doesnt always avoid canned sloganeering, and the pacing could be tighter.
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Few actresses can command a close-up like Stewart, whose vulnerability all but bursts through the screen.