The Iron Lady
In her twilight years, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reflects on her life and career as she finally prepares to dispose of the belongings of her late husband, Denis while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
20 February 1954, Camden, London, England, UK
1953
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
1963, UK
2 March 1931, Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
March1959, Manchester, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
24 June 1961, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
30 January 1974, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
26 October 1953, London, England, UK
1963, Essex, England, UK
1948, England, UK
19 May 1947, England, UK
6 November 1963, Surrey, England, UK
19 May 1950, Sidcup, Kent, England, UK
8 July 1954, London, England, UK
1987, Ammanford, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
September 25, 2013
It's a pity Streep can't be picked up as Thatcher like a chess piece and placed down in a different, better film.
January 13, 2012
Yes, Streep is wondrous as usual, but her superpowers have been squandered here.
January 12, 2012
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.
June 30, 2013
A solid tribute to the conservative icon despite its meandering focus on her failing health.
May 09, 2016
While it's the filmmaker's right to sympathise with this furiously divisive and much reviled figure in British politics, the uncritical approach severely undermines the film's conviction.
January 13, 2012
What keeps The Iron Lady afloat is the mesmerizing work of its star. As we already know, Streep goes beyond mimicry to fully inhabit her characters, from The French Lieutenant's Woman to Julia Child.
January 13, 2012
The Iron Lady is a performance in search of a film.
November 05, 2013
So, as thrilling as it is to watch Streep imitate Thatcher, The Iron Lady feels like a missed opportunity, not to blame and cast aspersions, but to weigh and assess.
April 21, 2013
The narrative is not well structured, and Streep's performance suffers as a result.... The scenes with Broadbent are the best. They just aren't worth sitting through a history lesson that isn't taught well.
January 13, 2012
[Streep's] performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice.
June 14, 2013
...ignores the political and historical context of almost EVERYTHING that happens so that they can make the fabulously reductive statement that LIFE WAS TOUGH FOR GIRLS, BUT SHE WAS A TOUGH GIRL.
January 13, 2012
Often "The Iron Lady" relies on montages to get to - and plow through - historic high points.
