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“She’s so crystalline in her beauty,” Pauline Kael wrote of Michelle Pfeiffer in 1989, “that people may not recognize what a talented actress she is.” In fact, by the late ’80s, Pfeiffer had already begun pulling in heaps of industry plaudits, and 35 years on it’s hard to argue that she’s been “slept on,” but the sheer breadth of her superlative cinematic output is still worth marveling over—as this showcase proves. From her breakout role in Brian De Palma’s Scarface to her late ’80s/early ’90s golden age, encompassing roles in Dangerous Liaisons, Married to the Mob, The Age of Innocence, and beyond, a focus on a screen actress of startling range, actorly intelligence, and coiled force.