An Oscar-worthy portrayal of Margaret Thatcher by Meryl Streep, but not necessarily an Oscar-worthy movie.
The Iron Lady's story was told through the eyes of an aging Thatcher looking back on her life, talking to the ghost of her husband, and hence draped in sadness.
It was, above everything, a sad movie.
Streep got the accent, and demeanor down perfectly. Margaret Thatcher was not a likeable woman, and it's still weird to see how she held the men in her party and cabinet in her thrall.
It seems that governmental challenges - striking workers, militant unions, political backbiting, foreign intrusions - are on permanent repeat, so the way she contended with these dynamics is still relevant now, and made the movie sharp, and compelling.
It's just not this year's Kings Speech.
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