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Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog

Review: The Power of the Dog

6 Comments / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / December 6, 2021 / Ari Wegner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Campion, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog, Women Directors

The Power of the Dog, written and directed by Jane Campion, is assumed by many to be Benedict Cumberbatch’s film as he portrays a bullying, hypermasculine cowboy in 1925 Montana. Cumberbatch is terrific, I’ll admit that. But I think it’s Kodi Smit-McPhee’s film as Peter, the ‘Nancy Boy’ in the story. Hear me out.