Biopic Dramas
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By: Robert Waldman
Fashion Icon Coco Chanel gets unravelled in this slow looking tale about her early years, romantic foibles et al. more...
By: Robert Waldman
Get up close and personal with the player turned coach of famed British Leeds soccer champ whose luck comes up against some very determined player resisters. more...
By: Nick Rogers
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. do their best to keep up with director Joe Wright's baton, which swings wildly all over a movie whose score needs additional notations. more...
Bugsy a BioPic About Gangster Ben Siegel
By: Christine Nyholm
Bugsy, 1991, is a gangster film starring Warren Beatty and Annette Benning as mobster Ben Siegel and molll Virginia Hill and the beginning of Las Vegas as a casino town. more...
By: Mike Lippert
The Informant is two films at once: a clever comedic yarn about a corporate whistle-blower while under the surface is a sad and affecting portrait of a man afflicted more...
By: M.L. Costa
Julia Child created a cook book, and almost 50 years later, Julie Powell created a blog about it. more...
Film Review - Taking Woodstock (2009)
By: Sam Hatch
Critical darling Ang Lee returns to vintage America with the mellow tale of Elliot Tiber and his seemingly destined involvement in the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. more...
Movie Review: American Splendor
By: Liane Tsui
Harvey Pekar has a dead-end job, questionable hygiene, a crummy attitude, and an explosive temper. It's safe to say that he's no hero. Right? This movie begs to differ. more...
Comparing the Films Dillinger and Public Enemies
By: Kevin Sturton
Michael Mann's recent Public Enemies tells essentially the same story as John Milius's 1973 movie Dillinger, but there are differences in approach between them. more...
HBO Grey Gardens covers a 40 year span
By: Christine Nyholm
The HBO moviGrey Gardens is the story of an eccentric mother and daugher duo, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. more...
Movie Review – Michael Mann's Public Enemies
By: Amanda Jacobs
Public Enemies offers a multitude of exciting sequences and a charismatic lead actor in Johnny Depp, but the film is too long and too muddled to be truly great. more...
Summary of Seven Years in Tibet
By: Sandra Causey
An Austrian mountain climber develops a relationship with the Dalai Lama after spending seven years wandering through World War 2 era China. more...
Public Enemies - A Michael Mann Film
By: Kevin Sturton
1933, John Dillinger's (Johnny Depp) bank robbing spree turns him into a celebrity. Young FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is ordered to hunt down Dillinger. more...
By: Nick Rogers
While not the rampaging muckraker he could be, Oliver Stone puts forth quiet rage amid a towering tale of a Texan family whose trappings worked us all over more...
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