‘A movie star turn of the highest calibre’: we were wrong about Mother! – and Jennifer Lawrence

By the end of the 2010s, audiences soured on Lawrence as quickly as they’d fallen in love with her. But her performance in this much maligned film is utterly fearless

No actor defined the 2010s more than Jennifer Lawrence. Less than halfway into the decade, at the age of 22, Lawrence had won the hearts of audiences as the hero Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, and a best actress Oscar for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (famously tripping en route to accept it). She was bold, beautiful, brash and inescapable; her self-deprecating humour paired with megawatt talent made her a Messiah for millennials – until she wasn’t.

By the decade’s midpoint, the internet seemed to sour on Lawrence as quickly as they’d fallen in love with her. Her foot-in-mouth disease began to offend instead of charm, and her dominance in the media teetered into overexposure. “I just think everybody had gotten sick of me,” she later reflected in 2021. “I’d gotten sick of me.”

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Glenn Moore: Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore? review – a tale of two jokebooks

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
With one book of classic gags and another that brings him shame, Moore delivers a show that’s heavy on the laughs if light on the charm

Glenn Moore has a device he’s deploying in his new show, to maintain a balance between hilarity and underwhelm. He has two notebooks, one placed on each side of the stage. If a joke goes badly, he’ll go to the book containing his best ever material, and win the audience round with one of those classic gags. And if tonight’s crowd starts loving his show too much, he’ll read from the other book, containing material he’s ashamed of.

Slim chance, you might think, of Moore’s audience not finding him funny: this is one of the best joke writers in the business. And Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore? is another compendium of crackers from the 36-year-old. They are strung around the episodic tale of a drive through Death Valley he took, years ago, with his two cousins. They take a wrong turn, get lost, and acrimony ensues, in a story designed to demonstrate our host’s low self-esteem and lack of assertiveness.

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Oregon wildfire begins stabilizing as California blaze threatens vineyards

Rain helped cool Flat fire that destroyed homes in Oregon, while the Pickett fire has charred 10 sq miles of Napa county

A wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon has started to stabilize, while a blaze in northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state’s most famous vineyards.

Moisture helped the 1,200 firefighters battling Oregon’s Flat fire, but more work needed to be done, authorities said. Dry, hot weather had fueled a rapid expansion of the blaze across rugged terrain in Deschutes and Jefferson counties since the fire began late on Thursday.

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Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires

More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a portrait by an Italian master has been spotted on the website of an estate agent advertising a house for sale in Argentina.

A photo shows the painting, Portrait of a Lady (Contessa Colleoni) by the late-baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, also known as Fra’ Galgario, hanging above a sofa in the living room of the property, in a seaside town near Buenos Aires.

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France to sue Kick platform for ‘negligence’ over livestream death

Minister says Australian platform ‘did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content’

France will sue the Australian streaming platform Kick for “negligence” after a user died during a livestream, a government minister said.

The platform has come under scrutiny in France after a 46-year-old Frenchman died earlier this month during a 12-day live streaming marathon on his channel, which specialised in him enduring abuse or humiliation dished out by other participants.

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