The 20 Best Female Movie Performances of the 21st Century

"The last twenty-five years have seen some of the most extraordinary performances by women in cinema. In a period of history in which the industry has gone through the Harvey Weinstein scandal followed by the subsequent #metoo movement, female actresses rightly now have more of platform to tell their stories through the medium of cinema.However, they haven't been constrained simply by stories of oppression; these twenty performances highlight the genius of some of the actresses we're lucky enough to have in cinema."