Not even a pairing with a glass of quality bubbly can save this biopic from mediocrity.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All in Biopic
Not even a pairing with a glass of quality bubbly can save this biopic from mediocrity.
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic honors the late singer/songwriter’s talents and flaws.
Ethan Hawke’s disjointed Flannery O’Connor biopic is a frustrating view.
Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic is the best film of 2023.
Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein is a scatterbrained, occasionally brilliant effort.
Let weird Joaquin cook!
Yet another Sofia Coppola film that keeps emotions at a distance and only resonates on aesthetic levels.
Christopher Nolan’s biopic expertly marries dialogue-driven action and his trademark epic spectacle.
Haven’t audience-insulting, by-the-book sports biopics like this been outlawed by now?
Frances O’Connor makes an impressive directorial debut with this Brontë sister biopic.
The parody songwriter’s “life” makes for a near-ideal parody of music biopics.
Baz Luhrmann’s musical biopic features a star-making performance by Austin Butler, but is bogged down by repetitious storytelling — and Tom Hanks.
Will Smith delivers his first respectable performance in nearly a decade as the Williams Sisters’ father.
A miscast Kristen Stewart and a baffling script by Steven Knight sink this fantasia on Princess Diana.
In which an Asheville Movie Guy recalls his own close encounter with Tammy Faye Bakker, and considers Jessica Chastain’s movie version.
This extremely safe Aretha Franklin biopic honors the singer’s music, but not the woman herself.
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, and Dominique Fishback are excellent in Shaka King’s Fred Hampton biopic.
Julie Taymor’s inspiring but uneven Gloria Steinem biopic is a decent tribute to the feminist icon.
Ethan Hawke stars in this improbably lifeless biopic of the esteemed inventor.
