Someone I know who worked on a movie with Kristen Wiig recently described her to me as a “sick actress,” which I understood to be terms of fulsome praise. I’ve certainly seen flashes of that in Wiig’s up-and-down movie career, but like a lot of people seeking to graduate from TV comedy, and perhaps especially from “Saturday Night Live,” she’s had trouble finding the right vehicle. She was terrific opposite Bill Hader as a depresso sibling pair in “The Skeleton Twins,” and in fact the two of them were much better than the formulaic indie weeper around them. She was irresistible opposite Ben Stiller in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a movie so ground down into meaninglessness by the Hollywood machine that it never actually happened and we have all forgotten it.
Source: salon.com