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He also thinks the Star Wars prequels are mostly OK and that Ivan Reitman's Draft Day is a low-key masterpiece. And the soundtrack, featuring The Strokes and The Cure among others, couldn’t sound less appropriate for the period.
Their slapstick gags were beloved around the world, with Stan Laurel playing the clumsy man-child and Oliver Hardy the mean bully.
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13. They explore the personal triumphs, tragedies, relationships, and creative processes that make up a life in show business—and provide us with unique perspectives from those we’ve admired from afar.
The list includes critically-acclaimed classics like My Week With Marilyn starring Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Judy featuring Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland.
The film isn't perfect, but the good parts were great enough to earn it multiple awards.
11. Elvis (2022)
Elvis Presley was obviously more of a musician than an actor, but he starred in more films than pretty much anyone else on this list. After all, he was first and foremost a performer (which is why he was taken in by circus huckster Colonel Tom Parker).
After breaking racial barriers and rocketing to stardom, Elvis naturally transitioned to Hollywood and churned out an impressive 31 movies that started out as fun but gradually ended up soulless.
Austin Butler embodies the King of Rock in Baz Luhrmann's biopic that's even more glittery than Presley's outfits.
However, we do know that Grahame (played by Annette Bening) spent a lot of her final years in Liverpool.
Initially there for work, she strikes up an unexpected relationship with an amateur actor 30 years younger (Jamie Bell). The film is centered on a journalist profiling Rogers who assumes someone presenting as this kind must have another side.
The silhouette of a bowler-hatted tramp is recognizable anywhere.
Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar for his honorable portrayal of this timeless figure.
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Marie Antoinette
This 2006 biopic is straight vibes.
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An Angel at My Table
Janet Frame might not be a household name in America like other biopic subjects on this list, but hers was a life so full that a young New Zealand director named Jane Campion turned it into a true cinematic effort in 1990 in just her second feature film.
His dual identity is explored in Rob Cohen's biography, and thankfully Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story goes beyond skin-deep.
Jason Scott Lee stars as the chiseled karate icon, delving into his Hollywood career and his relationship with Linda Lee Cadwell, all of it flourished with elements of mysticism.
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The pair were starting to age and—having spent so much time together—their friendship even started taking a toll. We get to see how his iconic photoshoot of James Dean came about, with Dean himself played by Dane DeHaan.
Like those actual photos—which are cleverly woven into the film—Life is an artistic sliver of Dean's life, with poetic narrations and a bang-on performance by DeHaan as the sensitive, soft-spoken, chain-smoking rebel without a cause.
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But by severing the connection with the time period as harshly as—well, nevermind—director Sofia Coppola crafts something that’s able to gently remind viewers this movie is a relatively simple story about a young girl who embraces the luxury around her because she’s in an otherwise impossible situation. But in Tick, Tick…Boom!, he’s both struggling to break into the musical industry and, in a parallel but future-looking story, acting in the musical he wrote before Rent.
Mimicking such a specific personality as James Dean?
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John Gilpatrick
John Gilpatrick is a freelance writer and film critic from the Lehigh Valley, PA. He loves movies about space and movies about oil drillers (especially when they go together).