Elle Fanning is sharp and affectionate in 'Margo's Got Money Troubles'

Elle Fanning is sharp and affectionate in 'Margo's Got Money Troubles'

Twenty-eight-year-old Elle Fanning has been nominated for an Academy Award (Sentimental Value) and a Primetime Emmy (The Great) and has co-headlined a Disney flick that grossed three-quarters of a billion dollars (Maleficent). Yet, the role with which I instinctively associate her is her work as a backyard film “star” in J.J. Abrams’s 2011 thriller, Super 8. There, cast as the plucky child of troubled parents, the then-13-year-old was utterly co…