To Leslie mercifully starts us at rock-bottom, meaning this addiction-recovery drama is almost all upwards-oriented, even with the occasional backslide. Given its dour topic of a lottery winner’s life completely broken down, it’s almost charming and cheery.
Andrea Riseborough really is that good: she’s funny and humane and sad in perfect balance. It’s not on the level of Blanchett or Yeoh (or the criminally un-nominated Mia Goth in Pearl) where we’ll still be talking about it a decade from now, but the Academy has nominated less worthy performances, even this year. (See: Judd Hirsch’s 90 seconds on screen.)
Marc Maron is pretty great, too.
Is It Good?
Good (5/8)
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