Back to Black
By Kent Turner May 17, 2024
Amy Winehouse gets the biopic treatment.
Ethan Hawke directs the biopic of Flannery O’Connor, writer of some of the most original fiction in American literature.
A conventional costume drama about mostly pompous and entitled characters set against an exquisite visual palette.
Michael Mann takes the wheel of a fast, direct, and confident drama. He puts you in the middle of the road with engines at full throttle.
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.