Biopic Dramas

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (released 8 January); at last, a fitting filmic tribute to one of England's most influential punk and new wave singer-songwriters.

Dec 7, 2009 - Glyn Brown

It's blandly calculated, safe, invulnerable and cute. Michael Oher winds up a supporting player in his own biopic, although Sandra Bullock is a surprisingly strong lead.

Dec 4, 2009 - Nick Rogers

Charles Darwin is famed for penning a definitive work about the evolution of life, but his own life is under the microscope in the British biopic, Creation.

Nov 23, 2009 - M.L. Costa

Jane Austen's private life is revealed in this BBC feature-length dramatisation when her niece Fanny sought advice on love and marriage.

Nov 8, 2009 - Carolyn M Cash

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.

Nov 2, 2009 - Robert Waldman

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.

Oct 26, 2009 - Nick Rogers

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.

Oct 25, 2009 - Christine Nyholm

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

Sep 28, 2009 - Mike Lippert

Julia Child created a cook book, and almost 50 years later, Julie Powell created a blog about it.

Sep 15, 2009 - M.L. Costa

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.

Aug 28, 2009 - Sam Hatch

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.

Aug 13, 2009 - Liane Tsui

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.

Jul 28, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

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.

Jul 19, 2009 - Christine Nyholm

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.

Jul 6, 2009 - Amanda Jacobs

An Austrian mountain climber develops a relationship with the Dalai Lama after spending seven years wandering through World War 2 era China.

Jul 2, 2009 - Sandra Causey

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.

Jul 2, 2009 - Kevin Sturton

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

Jun 17, 2009 - Nick Rogers

Paul Morrison's Little Ashes explores the homoerotic friendship between the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and poet Federico García Lorca.

May 22, 2009 - Andree Lachapelle

The Soloist is an emotionally absorbing dramatization of the true life story of a musical prodigy, Nathaniel Ayers.

Apr 23, 2009 - Denise Castillón

Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James are featured in this optimistic view of Chess Records, the Chicago R&B and Blues record label of the 1950s and '60s.

Apr 12, 2009 - Eva Gordon

The popularity of biopics and the fascination with royalty has led to the production of many movies and miniseries about the regal figures of England.

Apr 1, 2009 - M.L. Costa

The popularity of biopics and the fascination with royalty has led to the production of many movies and miniseries about the regal figures of England.

Apr 1, 2009 - M.L. Costa

Imperial Russia, Revolutionary Russia, the tragedy within both opulence and poverty have been dramatized for cinema and television.

Mar 16, 2009 - M.L. Costa

In Flash of Genius, Kinnear plays Bob Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. Large auto companies took his idea. Drama ensues. 6/10

Mar 14, 2009 - Dominic Messier

The name Jason Butler Harner may not ring a very loud bell, but it's not for lack of work. Harner may be new to Hollywood, but not to the world of acting.

Mar 5, 2009 - Jennifer L Mashuga