The studios are rolling out the last of their big gun Oscar contenders in the next month or so, and they’re showing them to critics just as fast as they can arrange the screenings — “Nebraska,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and today “Philomena.”
Judi Dench, fading eyesight and all, has another gloriously Oscar-baited role, a woman whose child was taken from 50 years before and whose cause is taken up by a fallen/unemployed journalist (Steve Coogan, great break for him).
The trailer is funny, salty, and sad. Stephen Frears (“The Queen”) directed “Philomena” which opens at the end of November.