All posts tagged "Biopic"
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BETTER MAN – Review
Does BETTER MAN make a monkey out of British musician Robbie Williams? Well, no, but it does make...
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN – Review
Timothee Chalamet stars a young Bob Dylan at the beginning of his career, in director James Mangold’s A...
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BACK TO BLACK – Review
Talented singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s tragic life was already the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, AMY in 2015, made...
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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE – Review
Full confession: I love Bob Marley, so a biographical drama about the reggae icon is pure catnip for...
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RUSTIN – Review
Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a dream” speech at the landmark 1963 March on...
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ELVIS – Review
In a rhinestone-studded, cinematic extravaganza, director Baz Luhrmann gives Elvis Presley his signature dazzle treatment in an energetic...
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BENEDICTION – Review
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, BENEDICTION is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man...
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THE GLORIAS – Review
Three big names of the ’60s -’70s Second Wave feminism were Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,”...
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RESISTANCE – Review
Who knew legendary mime Marcel Marceau was a member of the French Resistance as a very young man?...
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JUDY – Review
Renee Zellweger gives a knockout performance as the legendary Judy Garland, in a biopic set in her later...
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TOLKIEN – Review
One thing you learn early on in TOLKIEN is that it is pronounced “Tol-keen,” contrary to the way...
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AT ETERNITY’S GATE – Review
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel impressionistic biopic AT ETERNITY’S GATE....
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VICE – Review
Adam McKay, who brought us THE BIG SHORT, takes on Dick Chaney in the hilariously satiric biopic VICE....
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AT ETERNITY’S GATE – Review
Willem Dafoe gives an amazing performance as Vincent Van Gogh is Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic biopic AT ETERNITY’S GATE....
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THE HAPPY PRINCE – Review
THE HAPPY PRINCE is not a happy story, neither the children’s tale by Oscar Wilde nor this biopic...
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COLETTE – Review
Keira Knightley stars as French novelist Colette in director Wash Westmoreland’s gorgeous and gripping period biopic COLETTE. What...
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LOVING VINCENT – Review
The strikingly beautiful animated film LOVING VINCENT is described as “the world’s first fully oil painted feature film.”...
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JANE – Review
In 1957, famed anthropologist Louis Leakey chose three young women to study the great apes in the wild,...
