The Devil Wears Prada

An journalist looking for a job (Anne Hathaway), lands a role as an assistant to the very demanding editor of a high end fashion magazine (Meryl Streep).

A tediously formulaic screenplay that barely registers as a comedy or a drama.

And yet what it manages to do within the confines of its tired format is remarkable. Casting Meryl Streep not only saved this film from obscurity, but cemented it as a classic. She just brings so much depth and humanity to a character that surely on the page is completely one-dimensional.

Making the ‘devil’ less devilish moves the tone of the film away from a basic story with a central villain to a scathing critique of the fashion industry as a whole. It’s quite a coup in a film that otherwise moves in the same circles as hundreds of other easy-going glossy comedy-dramas.