For my money, this Viola Davis vs. Meryl Streep scene in Doubt is one of the great Hollywood face-offs of all time. Easily on the level of that classic restaurant scene between Robert De Niro vs. Al Pacino in Heat, if not above and beyond it. You’ll notice that no film this year has delivered anything on this level. (Right?) Please name the other great one-on-one scenes. Not just between two actors, but between major-league, world-class talents. If Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift had costarred in a well-directed film in the early to mid ’50s and gone eyeball to eyeball…that kind of thing.
