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5. Winona Ryder (A Scanner Darkly)
As the spiky junkie Donna, a rotoscoped Noni returns from the wilderness and easily holds her own against the freaked-out ramblings of Robert Downey Jr and Woody Harrelsen.
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4. Superman (Superman Returns)
Okay, so it didn't make the box-office impact Warners was hoping for, but between them Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer made Superman's return as welcome as we could have hoped for.
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3. Carmen Maura (Volver)
Pedro Almodovar's muse-of-old, and Spain's biggest actress of the '80s was back in the frame and on form as Penelope Cruz's whimsical mother in Volver.
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2. Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)
The Next Best Thing that never-quite-was, Gretchen Mol proves what a shame it was she was once so quickly forgotten with this likeable, layered turn as the kind-hearted Southern belle who didn't quite see what the harm was with stripping naked and having her picture snapped in various S&M poses.
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1. Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland)
He's so good as the doomed George Reeves in this kinda-biopic of the one-time Superman, you wish the whole film had focused on him, rather than taking the murder-mystery route.
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