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Biopic

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Amy Winehouse gets the biopic treatment.

Wildcat

Ethan Hawke directs the biopic of Flannery O’Connor, writer of some of the most original fiction in American literature.

Jeanne du Barry

A conventional costume drama about mostly pompous and entitled characters set against an exquisite visual palette.

Ferrari

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.

The Iron Claw

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.

Maestro

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.

Priscilla

Sofia Coppola tells a disquieting, empathetic, and very American story based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me.

Oppenheimer

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.

Dalíland

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.