Film-Forward

Biopic

Being Maria

In Jessica Palud’s bumpy but effective biopic of Maria Schneider, the Last Tango in Paris shoot casts a shadow over everything that follows in Schneider’s life.

Queen of the Ring

The biopic of wrestler Mildred Burke is at its best when it embraces the pageantry and over-the-top performances of the squared circle.

I’m Still Here

Perhaps director Walter Salles’s best film since Central Station.

A Complete Unknown

Director James Mangold focuses less on biographical details and more on Bob Dylan’s music, which might single-handedly bring the folk movement back into vogue.

Maria

How do you solve a problem like Maria—portraying soprano Maria Callas, that is?

The Apprentice

The biopic traces Trump’s rise as an ambitious real estate mogul in the 1970s and ’80s under the tutelage of the bombastic lawyer Roy Cohn.

Lee

Kate Winslet mixes idealism, will, and crankiness in a high-level star turn that helps this biopic navigate some uneven ground.

Kneecap

An electric musical biopic with songs that viewers will immediately want to add to their Spotify playlists.

Widow Clicquot

The woman who revolutionized the French champagne industry.