To Leslie
2022
***
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Andre Royo, Owen Teague, Stephen Root, James Landry Hebert, Marc Maron, Allison Janney,
Six years after winning \$190,000 in a lottery, Leslie has drunk it all away and alienated her friends and family in the process. With nobody to fall back on, she receives help from a kind stranger who runs a motel. Andrea Riseborough's Academy Award nomination raised some controversy, but there is no denying that she is very good as Leslie, who is not an easy person to like. This drama about her redemption is gritty and believable, apart from the ending, which leaves no problem unsolved.
