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In the bruising melodrama “Pieces of a Woman,” Vanessa Kirby does something remarkable and rare — or at least, she makes it seem rare. She brings sharp emotional definition to a character who, in the throes of a devastating loss, refuses to make her feelings easily readable, or consolable, for those around her. Not for her partner, who can scarcely contain his own spasms of grief. Not for the nosy family friend who pulls her into a hug at the supermarket, promising her that justice will b...

Directed by Kornél Mundruczó Starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, Molly Parker, Iliza Shlesinger, Jimmie Fails, Tyrone Benskin, and Frank Schorpion. SYNOPSIS: There are pieces of a great movie within Pieces of a Woman (Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó lends a strongly empathetic and gentle touch to regular screenwriting collaborator Kata Wéber’s equally profound script that practically drips with grief and complex characters each entrenched...

Availability Select theaters December 30; Netflix January 7 After losing their child, our couple is haunted by the lack of closure. Medical examiners are unable to determine whether the midwife, Eva (Molly Parker), is responsible. Martha is withdrawn, severe, and frigid. To her husband and family’s horror, she insists upon donating her daughter’s body to science. Frustrated by his unresponsive wife, Sean grows violent, reverts to old, dangerous habits, and falls into bed with Martha’s cou...