Miss Meadows

Miss Meadows (2014) is an American crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Katie Holmes plays the title character: white gloves, floral dresses, immaculate courtesy — and a gun in her handbag. When she encounters bad behavior on the street, she doesn't call the police. She handles it herself.

Director Karen Leigh Hopkins builds the film around the gap between how Miss Meadows looks and what she does. The character is simultaneously warm and deeply unsettling, and her logic has a kind of internal consistency that makes her far more interesting than a standard vigilante. James Badge Dale plays the local sheriff who falls for her and slowly starts to suspect that the woman he's in love with is someone he's professionally obligated to stop.

Holmes holds the performance on a knife's edge — charming one moment, chilling the next — and that is what keeps the film from landing cleanly in any single genre. Stream Miss Meadows (2014) online on iFILM.