As Brown’s aged, long-estranged mama, Davis-with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately-manages to reinvigorate a set-up familiar from any number of tortured artist-biopics (i.e. “Holy shit, I love watching this woman act!” is what I immediately thought during Viola Davis’s doozy of a “big scene” in Get on Up, which nearly every review of Tate Taylor’s surprisingly strong James Brown biopic has been well-inclined to praise. Here's Matthew Eng on where we are in the career of one of the great screen actresses.
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