Best & Worst Performances – by the Same Actors – of 2012

2012 offered no shortage of acting yin-and-yangs, with five actors in particular meriting notice for giving some of the year’s best — and worst — performances

KYLIE MINOGUE

Best: “Holy Motors”

In Leos Carax’s mind-bending fantasia on acting, illusion and the movies, Australian pop princess Minogue plays a former lover of the film’s mysterious leading man, and during their brief interlude together, she sings a haunting, plaintive song of loss. It’s a powerful moment that lingers, delivered in one of the year’s very best films.

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