The best biopic so far this year, and a triumphant directorial debut from one of our most consistently great actors.
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In summer of 2014, director Richard Linklater reignited Ethan Hawke’s career, providing him with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in Boyhood. Now, Hawke’s resurgence continues with his portrayal of jazz musician Chet Baker in Robert Budreau’s Born to be Blue – an uncompromising look at a once-promising career shattered by drug abuse. While other notable jazz performers of the 1950s suffered from drug addiction, none of their career trajectories was as disrupted as Baker’s. Over a half-century later, most of us can rattle off names like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Chet Baker? Now that’s another story. Only true [More]
A very good film eerily similar to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Surprisingly boring biopic of the country music legend.
This is one giant, silly, excessive, over-the-top romp!
This is not a documentary in the purest sense. There’s no investigative journalism going on here.
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Will Smith in the movie of the NFL’s denial and cover-up of evidence linking football with traumatic brain injury
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