Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Melissa McCarthy may have found her sweet spot between drama and comedy.  She has unbelievable timing as an actress, but a lot of her work has been in poorly written, silly movies where she looks good but a lot of what surrounds her is very mediocre.
In this she plays a real life character, Lee Israel, who has written a number of celebrity biographies, which have had modest success, but she really had a mold that she wrote to, and when that style went out of favor, she was completely unable to adapt.  Instead, she flogged her agent (played by Jane Curtain), refuses to listen to her or anyone else, takes absolutely no blame, nor is there an iota of soul searching.  Instead she drinks more, and it isn't until her cat gets sick that she starts to sell off her prized possessions.  She has some letters from famous people, which she discovers are valuable, but could be even more valuable if they were kind of racy, or said something quite quotable, and so on.  What does she do?  She starts to write them herself.  To find out what happens you'll have to watch the movie, but it is a lot funner to watch than I am making it out, and she turns in an Oscar nominee winning performance.