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Margot Robbie has been feeding the girls lately, and we truly mean feeding because her latest performance in Wuthering Heights alongside Jacob Elordi is the kind of feral, windswept acting that makes you grab your chest and realise Catherine could never. She gave us hurricane-level passion with her eyes that scream entire novels.

And just when we were still recovering from that storm she calls a performance, Netflix decided to drop A Big Bold Beautiful Journey into our laps. Come on, Netflix, you wee little devil, you thought we wouldn’t notice the timing? It’s impeccable. Because this is Margot in her after-Barbie, before-Wuthering Heights era, the era real cinephiles brag about knowing.

The film slipped by so quietly during release because other contemporary titles insisted on screaming for attention, but this one? This one was simmering under the radar. It was waiting for the right audience, the audience that appreciates nuance and audacity. And let us tell you something: Margot Robbie absolutely owns this film.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is directed by the emotionally fearless Kogonada, aka Park Joong Eun, the South Korean-American filmmaker you might know from Columbus and After Yang. The film follows two strangers who collide during the lowest moments of their respective lives… Collide quite literally.

They meet at a wedding and get pulled into a strange, dreamlike road trip together. The story sends them travelling across the country trying to sort their lives out, and you just think, this should not look this cute. But just when you think that it’s a normal road trip, they begin encountering magical doors, literal portals, that open into moments from their pasts.

Margot plays a woman named Sarah who is fragile yet unstoppable. She gives you broken-but-still-trying energy, the kind of character who laughs through tears and desperately clings to hope even when she claims she has none left (us, Sarah, us). The role is so important in Margot’s filmography because it lets her flex every corner of her range. There is her comedic timing, which we’ve already seen in Barbie, and then you watch her go through subtle heartbreak. There are moments where her face crumples so delicately you want to crawl into the screen and hold her.

Now, coming to her co-star, Colman Domingo, played by Collin Farrell, who brings a sense of someone who has lived an entire lifetime in silence. His scenes with Margot are ELECTRIC. Not romantic or platonic, but something in-between. Something human that makes you feel like you are intruding on someone’s private conversation. The film is all about their dynamic, which grows not out of desire but out of recognition.

What is wild is how relevant this film feels now, especially after Margot’s volcanic performance in Wuthering Heights. Sure, it was just released in 2025, but watching it today is like realising why it was skipped in the first place.

And let us be absolutely clear: Netflix releasing this film now is a smart move, not because Margot is trending but because A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is the Margot Robbie performance people should be talking about when they praise her range. Let Margot Robbie once again prove she is a cinematic event all by herself.