The Meryl Streep Roles That Prove She’s a Class of Her Own

Through Phyllida Lloyd’s lens, she performs metamorphosis as possession. The voice, the gait, the unyielding certainty — uncanny and exact. Beyond mimicry, Streep dissects power’s isolation. Thatcher’s mind, decaying in solitude, becomes a mirror for leadership’s cost. The film polarized politics but united critics in awe.

For this, she won her third Oscar. History here doesn’t repeat — it resurrects.