Ben Affleck’s deeply felt portrayal is nothing less than atonement in action.

Mark Ruffalo combines forces with director Todd Haynes to turn a potentially rote procedural into a diabolical exposé.

It’s the women who take ownership of this moody show, both behind the camera and before it.

Shia LaBeouf patently has no illusions about the hand he was dealt.

Paul Walter Hauser and Kathy Bates walk steadily through the wreckage of Richard Jewell’s undoing.

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe go hell for leather as deranged lighthouse keepers fighting their claustrophobic entrapment.

Kristen Stewart’s fine-tuned performance is as forthright and aware as actress Jean Seberg was politically and romantically fearless.

Director Marielle Heller plays her Mister Rogers keynotes of understanding and acceptance as nice as pie.

The score-settling cause that these Fox News women go to bat for packs a stinging wallop.

Harrowing, tragic, humbling and heroically played out.