{"id":42431,"date":"2014-08-01T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=42431"},"modified":"2014-08-05T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:01:45","slug":"five-best-actresses-working-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=42431","title":{"rendered":"The Five Best Actresses Working Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the five best actresses working today? For all the public fuss made over her, you&#8217;d think<strong> Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong> might be the only working actress in Hollywood worth talking about. Movie Irv already rendered <a title=\"Jennifer Lawrence: Overrated or Underrated?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/jennifer-lawrence-overrated-underrated\/\" target=\"_blank\">his verdict on the praise-worthiness<\/a> of the\u00a0much-loved star of acclaimed films like <a title=\"Silver Linings Playbook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/siteSearch.asp?search=silver%20linings playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(for which she won the Oscar), <em>American Hustle <\/em>(which made my own Top 10 of 2013), and <em>X-Men: Days of Future Past <\/em>(a lot better than\u00a0you might have expected!)\u00a0&#8230;but now, he&#8217;s eager to give you a &#8220;top five&#8221; roster of the finest female cinema stars he believes are worth following on the screen:<\/p>\n<div id=\"wistia_q94q9q4ayh\" class=\"wistia_embed\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 388px;\">\n<div><object id=\"wistia_q94q9q4ayh_seo\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px; display: block; position: relative;\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.wistia.com\/flash\/embed_player_v2.0.swf?2013-10-04\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false&#038;banner=false&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=true&#038;customColor=7b796a&#038;endVideoBehavior=default&#038;fullscreenDisabled=true&#038;hdUrl%5B2pass%5D=true&#038;hdUrl%5Bext%5D=flv&#038;hdUrl%5Bheight%5D=720&#038;hdUrl%5Bsize%5D=73193866&#038;hdUrl%5Btype%5D=hdflv&#038;hdUrl%5Burl%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2F2c8e17a59a3325de1422a1f27d9b3afb72c83bcc.bin&#038;hdUrl%5Bwidth%5D=1280&#038;mediaDuration=221.654&#038;playButtonVisible=true&#038;showPlayButton=true&#038;showPlaybar=true&#038;showVolume=true&#038;stillUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fb09d7ee92addf3a9d7884fc2a16d507250aa325b.bin%3Fimage_crop_resized%3D640x360&#038;unbufferedSeek=false&#038;videoUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fe0fad7daa69dffffaca52f09e931c2abd2fd25f6.bin\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.wistia.com\/flash\/embed_player_v2.0.swf?2013-10-04\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=#000000 flashvars=\"autoPlay=false&#038;banner=false&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=true&#038;customColor=7b796a&#038;endVideoBehavior=default&#038;fullscreenDisabled=true&#038;hdUrl%5B2pass%5D=true&#038;hdUrl%5Bext%5D=flv&#038;hdUrl%5Bheight%5D=720&#038;hdUrl%5Bsize%5D=73193866&#038;hdUrl%5Btype%5D=hdflv&#038;hdUrl%5Burl%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2F2c8e17a59a3325de1422a1f27d9b3afb72c83bcc.bin&#038;hdUrl%5Bwidth%5D=1280&#038;mediaDuration=221.654&#038;playButtonVisible=true&#038;showPlayButton=true&#038;showPlaybar=true&#038;showVolume=true&#038;stillUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fb09d7ee92addf3a9d7884fc2a16d507250aa325b.bin%3Fimage_crop_resized%3D640x360&#038;unbufferedSeek=false&#038;videoUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fe0fad7daa69dffffaca52f09e931c2abd2fd25f6.bin\" name=\"wistia_q94q9q4ayh_html\" style=\"display:block;height:100%;position:relative;width:100%;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed><\/object><noscript>The Five Best Actresses Working Today<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"><\/script><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed(\"q94q9q4ayh\", {\n  videoFoam: true\n});\n\/\/ ]]&gt;<\/script><script src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/q94q9q4ayh\/metadata.js\" charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"><\/script>Have you got different choices? Do any of Irv&#8217;s picks remind you of the great stars of the golden age? (Stock responses about how none of the women in movies today match up to the greatness of starlets long gone will be met with the appropriate yawn)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the five best movie actresses working today? 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