Despite such standout turns as Reese Witherspoon’s as the girl going on a self-discovery trek in ‘Wild’, her most welcome return to form; Felicity Jones and Rosamund Pike having their breakthrough roles in ‘The Theory Of Everything’ and ‘Gone Girl’ respectively or Julianne Moore nailing her second outstanding performance of 2014, also the Oscar frontrunner’s, for the still unreleased in the UK ‘Still Alice’; many an Oscar commentator complained this year’s about the limited number of good roles for actresses in contention for the awards season. However, if that may ring true for Hollywood fare, they just had to look a bit farther at thevinternational arthouse and genre crops to find out such first class performances as Scarlett Johansson’s,the icy alien in ‘Under The Skin’; Tilda Swinton as the loving vampire of ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ and Essie Davis as the bereaved mother of ‘The Babadook’.

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