Julia Roberts doesn’t just act in this film. She detonates. In August: Osage County, the woman once defined by that luminous smile walks straight into the ugliest corners of family, grief, and rage—and never looks away. No glamour. No safety net. Just a daughter breaking in real time, in front of eve…
Julia Roberts’ turn as Barbara Weston is less a performance than a reckoning. She abandons the glossy rom-com aura that made her a star and steps into a woman who is exhausted, furious, and still somehow holding the center of a collapsing family. Opposite Meryl Streep’s venom-laced Violet, Roberts channels a lifetime of unspoken hurt into sharp, trembling confrontations that feel dangerously intimate. Her face, stripped of Hollywood polish, becomes a battlefield of twitching restraint and sudden, volcanic outbursts.Continue reading…
