5 Most Overlooked Acting Performances of the 2020s So Far

Everyone’s got their favorite iconic performances from iconic performers. Everyone also probably has that one performance from someone not everyone may have heard about that they wish more people did.

In my case, I’ve got quite a few. Here are some of my favorite, most overlooked performances from the 2020s so far.

1. Juliette Gariépy in Red Rooms

Red Rooms is a French-Canadian psychological thriller that follows Gariépy as Kelly-Anne. An online hacker who becomes obsessed with a man on trial for serial murder. As the case becomes more complicated, she goes to increasingly problematic lengths to retrieve the final piece of evidence needed to convict him.

The film deals with relatively newfound themes in the true crime genre involving obsession with the type of content made about it today, the effect it has on the victim’s families, and the level of depravity sometimes required of those trying to do the “right thing”. Gariépy’s performance is absolutely chilling. Her character is molded to be rather quiet and ambiguous in terms of motivations for why she’s doing the things she’s doing. You’re never fully aware of whether or not she’s doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. In fact, she often fully does the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.

This kind of back-and-forth with a character can easily become annoying or disjointed, but her horrifying baseline of a facial performance is what is able to so beautifully sustain the film.

2. Adam Driver in Ferrari

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