In theaters Wednesday: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
In theaters Friday: American Hustle, Saving Mr. Banks
New on Blu-ray: Elysium, The Lone Ranger, Prisoners
You better get used to Jennifer Lawrence. And not in the “she’s in every single movie” kind of way, though she’ll land her share, obviously, but more like in the hyper real, unaffected way she seems to be floating through the typical Hollywood morass with a cutting, often riotous, honesty that makes her a golden quote and GIF machine unlike any actress before her. (Click here for a trove of GIFs)
The 23-year-old Kentucky native’s greatest hits aren’t her blockbuster turn in The Hunger Games, the X-Men franchise or even her Oscar winning performance in Silver Linings Playbook. No, they are the viral bits of “J-Law” that bounce around the Interwebs ad infinitum while the rest of her twenty something sisterhood of the silver screen is busy pausing for a PR team’s approval on every word and public gesture.