15 Best Movie Performances Of 2018 (So Far)

12. Claire Foy (Unsane)

Unsane Claire Foy
Fox

Though most of Unsane's headlines revolved around Steven Soderbergh shooting the entire thing on an iPhone, really the most impressive element of this low-fi psychological thriller was Claire Foy's splendid performance as a woman committed to an insane asylum while dealing with the advances of a stalker (Joshua Leonard).

Foy does a great job keeping the audience on their toes with both the general ambiguity and more specific little tics of her performance, enhancing the unease of Soderbergh's direction all the way through to the rather bonkers third act.

She's in practically every shot of the movie and has to carry it above and beyond the rather basic visuals, firmly proving her to be one of the most compelling on-the-rise actresses working today.

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