The moment it crystalizes that Jennifer Lawrence is giving the most surprising, uninhibited performance of her career — the likes of which even her diehards may not have guessed she could deliver — comes quite early in Lynne Ramsay’s absolutely punk-rock trip through one woman’s psyche,

Thirdly, a year after a record number of films that premiered at Cannes went on to Oscar nominations and wins, only a handful have emerged that seem to possess the quality, subject matter and potential endurance to remain in the Oscar conversation more than half a year from now when Academy members start casting their ballots.

In “Die My Love” with Robert Pattinson, she plays a mother with postpartum depression. She was four months pregnant then and the hormones helped a lot.