Best: Bastard Out Of Carolina (1996) Like her role in The Hudsucker Proxy, Leigh's performance in The Hateful Eight is a little too cartoonish and a little too much to really qualify as her best, despite how good it undoubtedly is. Thanks to a more restrained approach, her tortured performance in the exceptional Bastard Out Of Carolina is assuredly her very best. It is an unthinkable role - of a mother fully aware that her husband is sexually abusing her daughter - marked by shame and love and vulnerability, and it is as completely captivating as Ron Eldard's performance as the monster is. Yes it's difficult to watch, but that's precisely the point. Worst: Rag Tale (2005) If the idea of a romance played out against the backdrop of the British tabloid scene wasn't off-putting enough, Rag Tale is filmed by the disastrously untalented Mary McGuckian in a frenetic handheld camera style that is presumably supposed to add energy and "modernism". Inevitably, the only result is that the whole tasteless thing is literally unwatchable: whether that's a good thing or not remains to be seen.
