The adaptation of David Grann’s 2009 nonfiction best seller centers on Percy Fawcett, the British mapmaker who searched for an ancient city that he believed thrived with advanced technology.
A biopic of Emily Dickinson that delves into the poet’s life of self-restraint. It’s not just a character study but a look at a bygone era.
The biopic of businessman Roy Kroc, a movie that, like fast food, faithfully follows a recipe.
An equally straightforward title for this biopic could be Deconstructing Jackie.
In so many ways, Loving is this year’s Spotlight, another re-creation of the righting of a wrong—the movies focus on different issues but have a similarly hushed, just-the-facts, plainspoken approach.
Chilean director Pablo Larraín turns a standard biopic inside out in this stylish thriller with a literary bent.
Oliver Stone’s film covers a nine-year period in the life of security systems administrator turned whistleblower Edward Snowden, from an idealistic Special Forces enlistee to becoming the most wanted man in the world.
Star, cowriter, producer, and director Don Cheadle’s passion project, a biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis.
A biopic of Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf, star of Arab Idol, and his bumpy road to success.