Oscar special: Meryl Streep the saving grace of The Iron Lady

How good is Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady? Streep, as the frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Actress, has been called the redeeming feature of this largely plodding and sentimental film. But what does her performance say about the film, as well as the controversial figure of Margaret Thatcher herself?Streep, in her usual style, engrosses herself completely in the character — Britain’s longest-seated Prime Minister — that she makes it too easy to forgive the historical blemishes of a very

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