Lizzie (2018)

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    D: Craig William Macneill
    Chloe Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jamey Sheridan,
    Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O'Hare
"Lizzie Borden took an axe . . . " and 126 years later, people are still making movies about her. In this tense, claustrophobic speculation on what might've happened back in 1892, Chloe Sevigny plays Lizzie and Kristen Stewart plays Bridget Sullivan, the Irish housemaid who goes to work for the Bordens just as things are about to get bloody. Both actresses are good, even if neither of them looks quite at home in the late 19th century. In the wake of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing, the systematic abuse of women at the hands of privileged, powerful men has an immediacy the filmmakers might not have anticipated.