Writing in the Telegraph, Mark Hughes said audiences "will not be disappointed" by Johansson's "charismatic, if at times, slightly breathless performance", while Mark Kennedy, of the Associated Press, said the star "turns in a nifty turn as Maggie, finding humour and barely hidden desperation in her role as frustrated wife and mother-to-be".

BBC: Scarlett Johansson shines in lukewarm revival

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Zhang Ziyi ranked No. 2 in the overall list, and international film star Gong Li was No. 5.

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Know George Lucas's Star Wars (1977) and you can guess the plot of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958).

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Lucas insists that The Hidden Fortress, the 1958 adventure about two bickering commoners who help a rebel princess, provided the story map for Star Wars.

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