This is a standard crime tale with a difference. In seeking to cheekily subvert the tired cliches, writer-director McDonagh cleverly envelops the silly narrative with a kind of sardonic commentary...
Someone deserves an award for Precious. Not just Sidibe, whose astonishing, heart-wrenching performance as a confused, abused, illiterate, obese teenager stamps all over silly little words like pathos.
Someone deserves an award for Precious. Not just Sidibe, whose astonishing, heart-wrenching performance as a confused, abused, illiterate, obese teenager stamps all over silly little words like pathos.