Ann Reinking, and Erzsebet Foldi give startling performances, not just with mere acting, but also physically with their dancing. A couple of full body performances for the ages.

Susan George is so strong in this film to not just withstand the role, but in somehow, someway, she manages to become the roll. NOTE: Get the Criterion version of this film, as it has the greatest commentary track ever placed on a DVD by film scholar Stephen Prince.

Charlize Theron gives the greatest lead actress performance of this current decade as female serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

Little know Eileen Walsh, a 30 year old actress from Cork Ireland has one of the most overpowering film moments I have ever experience in all my many years of watching cinema. Great female cast, she shines as the catalyst that pushes this films dramatic climax over the apex.

Much like Eileen Walsh had what is arguably the greatest supporting actress performance of this current decade, so too that Ben Kingsley had one of the finest supporting actor performances of this decade, as mobster Don Logan A.K.A. The Anti Gandhi.

If I mention Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, I have to mention him in his greatest performance ever, and what I feel is the greatest performance of the 1980's.

And now for the best performance of this decade, and the best performance in Daniel Day Lewis's stellar career. Paul Thomas Anderson proves once again that he is a master of extracting stunning performances from his actors and actresses. Most visceral performance since David Thewlis in Mike Leigh's Naked 1993.

Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis, And Richard Burton all explode on screen in what is the greatest collective wall to wall acting ever placed in one film. Richard Burton should of won the Oscar...I know he was a drunk, but come on?!

Sarah Peirse as Honorah Parker Rieper, has the hard task of being the victim in this story, both over powering and pitiful, her performance will haunt you for years.