(3.5 stars)

One of the stealthier ways to assess the talent of an actress is to watch her play an actress on film. A role within a role — an exercise requiring her not only to pretend to be another person, but to pretend to be another person pretending to be another person, layer upon layer upon layer. Ariana Grande weirdly comes to mind: Until you see her playacting as a merely decent singer on “Saturday Night Live,” you don’t appreciate her true vocal talents, or her keen ear for discerning what separates decent from great.

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