In an early scene in Harris Doran’s Beauty Mark, protagonist Angie (Auden Thornton) is being chastised by her boss at a Louisville convenience store for being on the phone with a debt collector while ringing up customers. “It was an emergency!”...
Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, with its perfect storm of biopic, period piece and conspicuous accents (Nova Scotian, in this case), has all the trappings of an “actor’s showcase.” Usually, such movies are histrionic and programmatic. But Walsh and especially her two...