The Iron Claw
By Paul Weissman December 20, 2023
This isn’t merely a biopic but an examination of how familial love can sustain one in the darkest times, even when the devil is a part of the family.
This isn’t merely a biopic but an examination of how familial love can sustain one in the darkest times, even when the devil is a part of the family.
There’s no sophomore slump for Bradley Cooper’s career as a filmmaker. This biopic is the work of a multitalented here-to-stay artist testing limits and surpassing them.
Sofia Coppola tells a disquieting, empathetic, and very American story based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me.
At its best, Oppenheimer is downright surreal, not only in the flashes of images that may not be readily deciphered, but also how its director merges time lines together through incisive editing.
Mary Harron’s chronicle of the exuberantly hedonistic 1970s New York art scene, with Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and wife, Gala, as guides.
This biopic of musician and composer Joseph Bologne may take his fame to the next level.
The biopic of Emily Brontë focuses on the years leading up to the publication of Wuthering Heights and her death.
The brash biopic dramatizes an eventful year in Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s life, when she turned 40.
You don’t have to be an ardent fan of Steven Spielberg to enter his semiautobiographical bildungsroman, set in 1950s/’60s suburbia, though it wouldn’t hurt.