It nails the culture of the conservative network—and the fear and self-blame experienced by many women who are sexually harassed.
. She’s played with unsettling verisimilitude and cutting composure by Charlize Theron, who is nearly unrecognizable thanks to a combination of facial prosthetics and the adoption of Kelly’s low, overly enunciated voice. Though Gretchen Carlson broke open the floodgates with her lawsuit against Ailes, she plays second fiddle in this telling; Kelly’s soul-searching “will she or won’t she” about whether to come forward with her own stories of abuse takes up much of the film.
As Ailes, John Lithgow fully embodies the entitled, paranoid machinations of the story’s villain. Ailes, who died in 2017, worked as a media consultant to Republican presidents before launching the conservative network in 1996. Over 20 years, he reshaped the cable news landscape and wielded extraordinary power in media and politics.
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