N on a Scandal, brilliantly adapted by Patrick Marber from the darkly comic Zo Heller novel, is a grim piece of work — Fatal Attraction for the art-house crowd. Set in a dreary London where a gray ...

I do have to hop on the co-lead train. I also agree that Blanchett did make sense to drop to Supporting due to it feeling like Dench’s movie more so but I do think it was basically category fraud.

You’ve seen Dame Judi Dench playing English royalty and James Bond’s boss M. But you’ve never seen her in a role like the one she has in “Notes on a Scandal.” Playing lonely, sarcastically bitter ...