Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett delivers her best performance yet in new, biting flim ‘Tár’

Cate Blanchett delivers her best performance yet in new, biting flim ‘Tár’

Amid the multiple Halloween movies released this month, director Todd Field’s “Tár” was a standout. Starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár — the movie’s protagonist and namesake — the film follows one of the best maestros of her generation as she prepares to perform the only one of composer Gustav Mahler’s symphonies that she has never tackled.