Richard Brody, on Julianne Moore in Still Alice and Jennifer Aniston in Cake: “They’re virtuosi who are here misdirected to turn ballades and fantasies into drawing-room miniatures. … They play each scene with restrained and unambiguous precision, as if filling out each moment of screen time by clicking out cinemoticons. Neither actor – and neither movie – ever comes close to letting go. I don’t blame Aniston or Moore, but, rather, the Pavlovian reward system – based on false critical values – that makes such self-denying work pay off.”