‘Death Becomes Her’
Time to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the actressing bonanza known as Death Becomes Her. Robert Zemeckis’s movie was a ground-breaker for visual effects — particularly for the scene where Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn serve up undead violence upon each other — but its most enduring pleasures are seeing Streep and Hawn face off. It’s a movie whose themes of the world being cruel and indifferent to aging women are as potent as ever, and the leading women are on their A game.