Pretty Persuasion

So measured is her performance, she even convinces us that there’s a soul beneath all Kimberley’s amoral scheming.

Our anti-heroine is after the lead role in a school production of The Diary of Anne Frank and will stoop to any depths to secure it and her future acting career...

There are so many movies where the heroine is persecuted by the popular bombshell and her posse that it's almost a genre, but never has the bombshell been this evil.

Wood gives us a character who is strong yet vulnerable, vindictive yet appealing, and at times admirable but never likeable.