Indie picture about a lottery winner who has squandered her winnings is catapulted into Oscar contention thanks to Riseborough’s remarkable, shapeshifting portrayal To Leslie is a sad, sweet country song of a movie, with a steel-guitar twang of love and loss. Screenwriter Ryan Binaco was inspired by his own mother for this film, conjuring her memory in the spirit of Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) or...

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