Review: In Netflix's 'Self Made,' Octavia Spencer gives an unsung heroine her spectacular due
“Little Fires Everywhere” pits Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington against each other in a diverting but broad suburban melodrama.
Spencer’s performance is dazzling. The role of pioneer comes naturally to her, and her character shows the scars of what it means to be a successful woman in a community and era where there were few. Men are threatened by her power: Booker T. Washington says he’d “rather endorse a palm reader than a hair culturist.” Female peers forsake her. Societal norms run counter to everything she hopes to achieve. And Spencer conveys all that victory and pain with compelling authenticity.
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