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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    Joel Edgerton is brilliantly understated in 'Loving'

    This is a really good movie — about an interracial couple whose relationship led to the Supreme Court ruling that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional — and it is sure to get some deserved Oscar love. Ruth Negga is the heart of "Loving" as the wife, making an indelible impression with those big, expressive eyes. But I want to extol the virtues of Joel Edgerton, who has arguably the tougher role of the husband. He gives a quietly but powerfully eloquent turn as a man of few words, someone who is almost painfully inward-focused. Yet Edgerton lets us sense the character's every emotion by his contained movements, his flickering eyes, his tensing jaw. Even more striking is how different this performance is from Aussie Edgerton's previous appearances in "Zero Dark Thirty," "The Great Gatsby," "Black Mass" and "The Gift," which he also wrote and directed. He's one to watch.

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