Beyond that, she also said the
film about a biracial pop singer's (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) existential crisis was «
superior to
several [Oscar] titles in contention, including «The Theory of Everything,» the banal, sentimentalized and the tear - jerking biopic of Stephen Hawking.»
Jake Gyllenhaal is the hero and narrator, but is surprisingly subdued for much of the
film (
several individual scenes excluded), leaving the attention to focus predominantly on Jamie Foxx as his
superior officer.