Rotten
Yes, Streep is wondrous as usual, but her superpowers have been squandered here.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Overview
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Director and cast
- Phyllida Lloyd Director
- Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
- Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher
- Olivia Colman as Carol Thatcher
- Roger Allam as Gordon Reece
- Susan Brown as June
- Nick Dunning as Jim Prior
- Nicholas Farrell as Airey Neave
- Iain Glen as Alfred Roberts
- Richard E. Grant as Michael Heseltine
- Anthony Stewart Head as Geoffrey Howe
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Often "The Iron Lady" relies on montages to get to - and plow through - historic high points.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten
[Streep's] performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
Streep's performance is so true and so uncannily accurate, so full and so complete in its understanding, that she is fascinating every second she is onscreen.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Streep, no fan of Thatcher, nicely undercuts the poignancy of her current condition with flashbacks that reveal her brittle arrogance in office.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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