At the dawn of this decade, the general populace mostly knew Brie Larson as Envy Adams in
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and as a recurring heavy presence on the Showtime drama
United States Of Tara. In the years since though, she's starred in a number of acclaimed motion pictures hailing from all sorts of genres, won an Oscar and been cast as a Marvel superhero. Perhaps the movie that really helped her start her ascension to movie star was the 2013 drama
Short Term 12, an outstanding feature full of lovable characters and an emphatic spirit that made human beings out of its troubled characters. She reunites with that films director, Destin Daniel Cretton, for the new drama
The Glass Castle, which, sadly, is a major step down from the quality of
Short Term 12.
