Roughly five times, while watching Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer, I needed to remind myself that this was Nicole Kidman I was watching on screen.
She’s mesmerizing, and so committed that, yes, you will need to stop repeatedly and remind yourself, “That’s Nicole Kidman.”
It usually leads to Oscar glory (looking at you, Gary Oldman), and I expect nothing less for Kidman — an Oscar nomination for Destroyer is a virtual lock.
That’s how thoroughly and convincingly the elegant, distinguished Oscar winner plunges into the dark and devastating role of hollowed-out L.A. detective Erin Bell in this gritty police procedural.