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Stuart: A Life Backwards — 4/5

This is mostly a showcase for Tom Hardy having fun playing a violent drunk and an addict and a disabled man, and what a show. You can see in this character all the characters he played after. There's a direct line from Stuart to Eddie Brock, and you can see the stops along the way. Playing everything like he's tried heroin at least once and it might have messed him up a bit but not making him altogether useless. You can see all of Benedict Cumberbatch as well—a WASP, even when he's playing with the poors. Within the fun showcase, a loose but tight little story of the hammers that chisel away at the best of us until we become the worst of us.