I find it's easy for biopics to end up a boring collection of scenes of the highlight reels of a person's life (see: Napoleon, Priscilla, and others). A Complete Unknown accomplishes what I think a great biopic should: a movie that could pass as just a great movie, even if you didn't know it were based on a real story or real person.
Complete with compelling storytelling, great and convincing musical performances, and above all great acting, A Complete Unknown…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
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Nickel Boys 2024
Unfortunately, this didn't land with me, which is a shame because it was such a great story and could have been a great movie. Don't get me wrong, I understand what they were going for with the first person, dreamlike feeling: to capture how memories feel, rather than crisp, faithful to reality recollections. And I really appreciate it, and it's used to great effect at times. But the creative decision ends up getting in the way more than adding to…
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Talk to Her 2002
I'm on an Almodóvar kick. What a crazy, sick genius.
Edit: I started reading the reviews and had to add... thinking that depicting a terrible act is condoning it is a very singular and superficial way to consume media. Are we supposed to only enjoy movies in which the protagonists behave in morally correct ways? The contrary. You can't even raise the question about wrongness if you refuse to even touch the topic because evidently depicting it is equivalent to condoning it. That's obviously not true.
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