![]() Her resilience is an inspiration and a model, given how empowered this group feels now. The greatest hero of the cast was Leslie Jones, who was viciously targeted by a Breitbart troll named Milo. The vitriol this movie received from a particular group of men (whose anaphylactic response to seeing women in the lead maps rather neatly onto other angry masculinist movements like Gamergate and the alt-right) was so disproportionate that it proved the movie's significance as a mark of how women's place in America has changed. It's infrequent for comedies to earn the awards they deserve, but it's even more rare for a comedy to clear-sightedly address the virulent resistance against it and come to stand as a touchstone in American cultural history. Chris Hemsworth more than held his own against this formidable team as the debonair dimwit whose spectacular dance number I've rewatched too many times. ![]() Leslie Jones crackled onscreen, and Kate McKinnon was this year's greatest comedy revelation - her Kellyanne Conway, her Hillary Clinton, but above all, her Jillian Holtzmann (watch McKinnon's deleted scenes for a glimpse at her almost deranged ad-libbing skills). Bridesmaids was a gift for that reason, and Paul Feig's choices in the Ghostbusters reboot were bold: It was a stroke of genius to make Melissa McCarthy the straight man, and to cast Kristin Wiig as a brainy ex-kook straining for scholarly respectability. It isn't all that often that you get to see four comedians at the top of their game making a movie together. It had me laughing hysterically - and even crying. This is the movie that delivered the most sheer fun this year.
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