Tag: Taraji P. Henson
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Straw: The Straw That Snapped the Stillness
Tyler Perry’s *Straw* arrives not with sermon nor spectacle, but with the raw pulse of a woman’s unraveling—tight as breath, quiet as thunder rolling under concrete. This is not a rise-and-triumph tale. It is a lament, cracked open—a portrait of a single mother crossing the faultline between survival and surrender. Taraji P. Henson delivers one…
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“What Men Want” Is Not to See This
The lesson here is take actors who can do comedy and believably fill in the blank character spaces over comedians who improvise lines for the laughs but can’t handle the character down time. Henson is the clear winner here. All photos courtesy of Paramount Pictures.