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But it’s when she turns inward that Madison’s performance starts to sing, revealing the great depth behind her character’s hardened exterior without the need for any showy dramatics.

Talk of drone strikes comes as other, less showy efforts to combat fentanyl have been paused because of the Trump administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid.

It is uncomplicated and devoid of showy spectacle.

Only Anderson’s part with all its hazy contradictions — neither comic nor tragic, neither pathetic nor heroic, neither subtle nor showy — seems, to transcend.

Any more showy displays would have felt like crossing a line.