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Emma Thompson – 10 Best Movies
By Vlad Zakh · December 29, 2025
Emma Thompson has an Oscar for acting and another for writing, and both instincts show up in nearly everything she’s in, whether she’s playing a repressed Austen heroine or a Disney villain’s origin story.
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02 A thinly veiled account of a Clinton-esque campaign's messy inner workings.
03 A magical nanny disciplines seven unruly children with a walking stick and hard lessons.
04 A rising fashion designer's rivalry with her boss curdles into full villain-origin territory.
05 Ten overlapping London love stories converge in the weeks before Christmas.
06 A novelist's narration starts controlling the life of a man who can actually hear her.
07 P.L. Travers resists Walt Disney's adaptation of Mary Poppins at every turn.
08 A time-turner, a dementor-infested train, and the franchise's most atmospheric entry.
09 Three families' clashing values over one English country house across a generation.
10 Thompson also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for this Austen adaptation she stars in.
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