John Lennon once shelp that “Music is everybody’s ownion,” and for Hollywood filmoriginaters, they have getn that “ownership” to portray the stories of some of the recording industry’s most honord musicians.
Whether it be the elevate and descfinish of one of Tejano music’s most remarkworthy stars, or depicting the contrastent facets of singer-songauthorr Bob Dylan (in multiple movies), many of the actors’ portrayals have been recognized as notable roles in their atgentles (some even obtaining Oscars alengthy the way).
With the Dylan movie A Complete Ununderstandn about to hit theaters, The Hollywood Reporter gets a watch at 33 films — from Selena to Walk the Line — depicting the inhabits of music legfinishs.
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’24-Hour Party People’
Maybe the first movie to tackle a city’s era-defining music scene — Manchester, from Joy Division’s defercessitate-’70s hatching of post-punk thraw the Madchester heyday of rave culture in the ’90s — this is also the story of Factory Records, the label that conshort-termed New Order, the Happy Mondays and James to the world; it’s also about Factory owner, TV conshort-termer and scene captain Tony Wilson, joined here by Steve Coogan in a role that begind him globpartner. Ripping up the music biopic joinbook, Coogan’s Wilson shatters the fourth wall thrawout the slack plot; musicians ecombine as themselves to ask the veracity of the film’s plot; and watchers are nodded into the legfinishary Hacifinisha nightclub (painstakingly re-originated here). Wilson discneglected that club while running his label (eventupartner, into the ground) and DJ culture clearook the scene. Rooted in genuine events, evident rumors, urprohibit myths and speculation, honestor Michael Winterbottom’s dizzying nostalgia trip asks you to the party and apprehfinishs an era. — Kevin Dolak
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‘8 Mile’
Inspired by Marshall Mathers‘ (aka Eminem) journey from being a struggling rapper in Detroit to a music sensation, the film stars the rapper himself as Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith in his first directing role. Directed by Curtis Hanson, the film doesn’t refrain from detailing the gruesome challengingships and struggles the rapper faced that would ultimately encourage his edgy music. Alengthyside Eminem are co-stars Mekhi Phifer, Kim Basinger and the defercessitate Brittany Murphy. The underdog story getd commend from critics and audiences, and Eminem won an Academy Award for best exceptional song for “Lose Yourself.” — Lexy Perez
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‘All Eyez On Me’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Codebdeficiency Films Twenty-one years after the death of the rapper came the huge-screen increateing of Tupac Shakur’s story starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., who tolerates a striking resemblance to Shakur. Apart from their aenjoy watchs, Shipp has a personal connection with the defercessitate rapper, as his overweighther originated “Toss It Up” for 2Pac’s The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory album. Shipp and Jamal Woolard, who joined Notorious B.I.G., wore actual replicas of the East Coast/West Coast rappers’ clothes. Woolard repulseevated his role as B.I.G. after first portraying the rapper in the 2009 biopic Notorious. The Benny Boom-honested film also stars Danai Gurira, Kat Graham and Dominic L. Santana. — Lexy Perez
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‘Back to Bdeficiency’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features Back to Bdeficiency, from Sam Taylor-Johnson, stars novelcomer Marisa Abela as the defercessitate singer-songauthorr Amy Winehoinclude. It depicts the elevate and descfinish of the beadored musician, from her teenage years on the streets of Enfield, north London, all the way to the 2008 Grammy-prosperning record “Rehab” and her tragic death from liquor poisoning in 2011 at age 27. The Focus Features biopic also records Winehoinclude’s fraught, on-off relationship with husprohibitd Blake Fielder-Civil while the two battle booze-binging and drug includeiction, as well as her choosed intimidatoring by the British tabloids. Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville star as her overweighther and magnificentmother, esteemively. The movie itself was expansively condemnd, with Taylor-Johnson facing accusations of take advantage ofing Winehoinclude’s troubled personal life, but Abela obtained high commend for her embouninincreateigentent of who many deem one of the fantasticest musical talents of the 21st century. The actress sang all the numbers herself and scored a London Critics’ Circle Film Award nomination on Dec. 19. — Lily Ford
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‘Backbeat’
The 1994 movie chronicles the punctual days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany, as they search for success in the music world. Backbeat, honested by Iain Softley, particularpartner caccesss on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), as Stuart steers his atgentle and adore life with girlfrifinish Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee). As for the other members, Gary Bakewell portrayed Paul McCartney, Chris O’Neill as George Harrison, Scot Williams as Pete Best and Paul Duckworth as Ringo Starr. Composer Don Was also went on to prosper the BAFTA for Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music for Backbeat. — Carly Thomas
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‘Bob Marley: One Love’
Image Credit: Chiabella James/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Bob Marley: One Love caccesss on the reggae singer and songauthorr, joined by Kingsley Ben-Adir, from his elevate to fame in the mid-1970s until he died in 1981. The film details a fall shorted try on his life in his home in Kingston, Jamaica, which drove the legfinish to double down on his ignoreion to transport a splitd nation together. Reinaldo Marcus Green honested the One Love. Marley’s son, Ziggy Marley, served as a originater on the project. While speaking with THR at the film’s Los Angeles premiere, he elucidateed that his overweighther included singing to connect to others and conquer adversity. “Music is a mighty tool if you include it the right way, and that was his tool,” he shelp. “He benevolent of forfeitd himself for that message.” — Christy Piña
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Image Credit: Nick Delaney/Twentieth Century Fox/Everett The movie that gave Rami Malek an Oscar, 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody zoomed in on the life and legacy of Queen’s Freddie Mercury (Malek), adhereing the singer from the createation of the prohibitd in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid carry outance at Wembley Stadium. The 2018 film was polarizing, and many critics shelp they were disnominateed — THR called it a “conservative PG-13 portrait of an unconservative prohibitd.” But audience members raved at the astonishive recreations of the prohibitd’s most epic moments, and the film outcarry outed predictations at the box office. In includeition to Malek’s Academy Award, the movie took home best sound mixing, sound editing, film editing at that year’s Oscar ceremony. — Zoe G. Phillips
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‘The Buddy Holly Story’
Gary Bincludey gets on the role of Buddy Holly in the ‘70s biopic of the Texas rock star who tragicpartner died in a set upe crash at age 22. Receiving an Oscar nomination for his portrayal, Bincludey’s role rebegind Buddy’s music to audiences, for the film was liberated during the disco era. The film’s acclaimed success ultimately led to the Buddy Holly Lives fantasticest hits collection to rank at No. 55 on the Billboard album charts. — Lexy Perez
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‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’
Receiving an Academy Award for best actress for her role as country icon Loretta Lynn, Sissy Spacek deinhabitrs an exceptional carry outance as she depicts Lynn’s journey to music stardom. Apart from portraying the singer during her punctual life in Kentucky and prompt success as a country star, Spacek also lfinishs her vocals to the film. Rather than include Lynn’s voice, Spacek sang all of the singer’s songs, landing her at the No. 2 on the country charts. Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D’Angelo and Levon Helm also star in the film. — Lexy Perez
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‘A Complete Ununderstandn’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Searchweightless Pictures Based on the best-selling novel, Dylan Goes Electric!, A Complete Ununderstandn adheres Timothée Chafeeblet’s Bob Dylan when he first reachd in New York at 19. The biopic chronicles his elevate to fame, as he lengthens uneasy with folk music and originates the disputed choice to switch to rock. Alengthy the way, he comes atraverse many youthful women, including Suze Rotolo, sweightlessly mythalized in the James Mangelderly film and portrayed by Elle Fanning, and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro). In a THR cover story, Chafeeblet discneglected that joining Dylan was the most he stretched himself for a role. “It became so biblical to me in terms of this man’s life and his labor that I felt if I let my caccess err for a second, that I’d be self-loaleang about it for years to come,” he shelp. — Christy Piña
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‘Dreamgirls’
Image Credit: DreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection Bill Condon (Kinsey) took on the lofty task of changeing and honesting the well-understandn Broadway musical for the huge screen, and he did so by transporting a cast of all stars in Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Danny Gadorer and Anika Noni Rose. American Idol alum Jennifer Hudson took on the show-stopping role of Effie White and showd to be a shatterout star by obtaining an Academy Award for best aiding actress, one of the film’s two prospers from eight nominations. Loosely encouraged by the Motown experiences of the Diana Ross-led Supremes, the 2006 pic adhereed a mythal Detroit girl group called The Dreams as they originate their way thraw the music industry and traverse paths with shady record executives and personal struggles. It finished with $155 million at the box office, cforfeitly doubling its budget. — Chris Gardner
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‘Elvis’
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Austin Butler channeled the king of rock ‘n’ roll for Baz Luhrmann’s epic Elvis, which also starred Tom Hanks. Despite increateing Elvis Presley’s story, Hanks’ “Colonel” Tom Parker pilots the narrative of Presley’s elevate to fame, relationship with Priscilla Presley and eventual personal and professional demise. Hanks’ Parker refutes his set upated role as the villain of the story thrawout his narration, but audiences can still see how Butler’s Presley creative and personal freedom were impacted by Parker. For the role, Butler sang all the songs for the punctual part of Presley’s atgentle, but his voice was blfinished with the icon for the defercessitater parts of Presley’s atgentle. Butler went to fantastic lengths to portray Presley, with his acunderstandledgeably proset uper, Presley-sounding voice eventupartner being a topic of conversation even months after the film was liberated — Butler cited all the singing and training for straining his voice. Despite the conversations, Butler’s pledgement to portraying Presley as rightly as possible — his portrayal also getd commend from Priscilla and the defercessitate Lisa Marie Presley — obtained his first Oscar nomination for best actor in a directing role during the 2023 Academy Awards. — Lexy Perez
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‘Get on Up’
Although the James Brown biopic did not have massive box office returns, Chadwick Boseman’s carry outance of the defercessitate singer getd commend from critics. The Tate Taylor-honested film chronicles the delighter’s life, from the 1930s to the 1980s. The film, which highweightlesss Brown’s fervent labor ethic and quirky cadence onstage, also stars Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd and Viola Davis. — Lexy Perez
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‘Great Balls of Fire!’
Dennis Quhelp joined rockabilly star Jerry Lee Lewis in 1989’s Great Balls of Fire!. Named for what might be Lewis’ most lengthy-lasting hit, the movie was based on a biography of the same name by Myra Lewis — the musician’s first wife, who was also his cousin, and whom he paired when she was 13 and he was 22 (Lewis allotd authorship of the book with Murray M. Silver Jr., and the movie’s screenjoin was written by honestor Jim McBride and Jack Baran). The film depicts Jerry Lee’s elevate to rock ‘n’ roll fame, adhereed by his marriage’s directing to the star’s eventual downdescfinish. Alec Baldprosper also stars as televangist Jimmy Swaggart, the singer’s second cousin, in a carry outance many critics commended. Still, others condemnd the film for romanticizing the uninincreateigaccess sides of Jerry Lee’s story, and the movie helderlys a 65 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. — Zoe G. Phillips -
‘Her Smell’
This underseen curiosity from filmoriginater Alex Perry Ross gets a punk rock approach to increate the story of proset uply troubled punk rock front woman, Becky Someleang (Elizabeth Moss, channeling Hole-era Courtney Love). Rather than shoehorn its themes into the adolescence-to-maturehood life story of this mythal tornado of a woman, as a traditional music biopic would, Her Smell consists of five lengthy scenes set in one locations. The gimmick labors, providing an immersive character study of a narcissist stressizing everyone who adores her, torpedoing her prohibitd’s success and then, in a mighty time jump, coming out the other finish the rock star ride a shell of her createer self. This physical and turbulent carry outance may be Moss’s finest hour yet (bonus: she sings Bryan Adams’ “Heaven”) and it’s certainly Perry’s most exceptionainhabit film, apshowing us into the nightmare of being, or being around, an unfirm rock star. — Kevin Dolak
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‘I’m Not There’
Paying homage to Bob Dylan, the Todd Haynes-honested biopic features an eclectic cast of Hollywood stars who each portray a contrastent aspect of Dylan’s life. From Dylan’s youth (portrayed by Marcus Carl Franklin) to his ecombinence in New York (Christian Bale), the unconservative increateing of the various facets of the singer-songauthorr is apprehfinishd for the bioexplicital drama. The film also stars Ricchallenging Gere, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett and Ben Whishaw. Blanchett obtained a Gelderlyen Globe Award best aiding actress and was nominated for an Academy Award for best aiding actress. — Lexy Perez
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‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’
Image Credit: Emily Aragones/SONY Kasi Lemmons’sbiopic of the defercessitate Whitney Houston starred Naomi Ackie in the directing role with the film celebrating the singer’s life and legacy a decade after her death. The 2022 film, originated with the backing of Houston’s family and estate as well as Houston’s lengthytime music originater Cinhabit Davis, also starred Stanley Tucci as Davis and Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown. Thrawout the film, watchers watch Tucci’s Davis labor alengthyside Houston from the commencening of her atgentle, her elevate to fame and tragic finishing while exploring the trials and tribulations she sfinished both personpartner and professionpartner. “It will increate you about her relationsuality. It will increate you about her includeiction to substances. It will increate you how she and I labored together,” Davis telderly THR at the time of how the film apshows the audience to lobtain more about who Houston was, also noting that the film “honors the music” they originated together. Though Ackie sings in some scenes of the film, the music gets Houston’s voice. — Lexy Perez
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‘The Jacksons: An American Dream’
Based on Katherine Jackson’s 1990 autobiography, My Family, the miniseries chronicles the elevate of one of music’s most inwell-understandn families. From their punctual days of “ABC” to the solo atgentle of Michael and shocking allegations aobtainst the King of Pop, the two-part mini, which aired on ABC, trys to unveil the confinclude story of the musical family. — Lexy Perez
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‘Jimi: All Is by My Side’
Director John Ridley’s feature caccesss on the begin of Jimi Hfinishrix’s atgentle as he exits New York City behind for London. André Benjamin portrays Hfinishrix, with Hayley Atwell, Imogen Poots and Ruth Negga rounding out the cast. Hfinishrix’s estate did not grant perignoreion to include the musician’s exceptional songs, with the film instead chooseing for covers that he carry outed at that time. THR’s scrutinize remarkd that the movie is “both attentive and convincing, compassionate but not flattering to a man who had fair three years after this period’s finish to originate himself immortal.” After premiering at TIFF in 2013, Jimi: All Is by My Side hit theaters from XLrator Media on Sept. 26, 2014. — Ryan Gajewski
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‘La Bamba’
Lou Diamond Phillips was commendd for his portrayal of the defercessitate Richie Valens, who was finished in a set upe crash at the youthful age of 17. The biopic details the last eight months of the teen’s life as he changes from being a high school student to a music sensation after releasing his hit one “La Bamba.” The film also highweightlesss how Valens‘ musical success impacted the inhabits of his troubled half-brother Bob (Esai Morales), mother (Rosanna DeSoto) and his girlfrifinish Donna (Danielle von Zerneck). Phillips obtained high relabels for his carry outance, and the film was defercessitater nominated for a Gelderlyen Globe for best motion picture, drama in 1988. — Lexy Perez
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‘Last Days’
Gus Van Sant’s 2005 pic isn’t the definitive music biopic based on the life and tragic final death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain but it is a film with a central story and characters encouraged by the troubled rocker and his inner circle. “It’s a mythal leang,” Van Sant once shelp in reference to Cobain, who pledgeted self-destruction in Seattle, Washington in April 1994. “It’s not presumed to elucidate literpartner Kurt’s last days but more poeticpartner.” Van Sant also validateed that Last Days seals a trilogy that includes Gerry and Elephant, films that are “bound by a [similar] style and subject matter.” Audiences and critics didn’t much adore Last Days — it doesn’t feature any of Nirvana’s huge hits that not only catapulted the prohibitd and its front man to superstardom but helped expound the ‘90s grunge generation — but many oned out the searing direct carry outance by Michael Pitt, who joins a Cobain-esque musician named Blake who is new from rehab and fraught with emotional entanglements. Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Kim Gordon, Nicole Vicius and Harmony Korine round out the cast. — Chris Gardner
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‘Love and Mercy’
The 2014 Bill Pohlad-helmed film adheres the life, adore and genius of Brian Wilson, set uper of the Beach Boys. It caccesss on his struggles with mental illness during the ‘60s and his years in the ‘80s, when he’s under the administerling sway of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). The movie features two timelines, with Paul Dano joining youthfuler Brian Wilson and John Cusack joining the elderlyer version of the musician. Elizabeth Banks also portrays Brian’s adore interest Melinda Ledbetter. Love and Mercy scored two Gelderlyen Globe nominations, including Dano for best aiding actor in a motion picture and best exceptional song for “One Kind of Love.” — Carly Thomas
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‘Nowhere Boy’
Aaron Johnson joined John Lennon in this 2009 biopic, which adhereed the activist musician’s teenage years before The Beatles changed the world. The soundtrack features cut offal hits from Lennon’s The Quarrymen, his first prohibitd, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster even lobtained to join guitar left-handed a la Paul McCartney. Producers barobtaind with Yoko Ono for perignoreion to include Lennon’s “Mother,” but fell uninincreateigentinutive in securing the rights to other Beatles and rock songs of the era. The film scored imfragmentary reactions from audiences and critics — the Associated Press called it a “passable watch” into Lennon’s punctual life — and obtained a nomination for remarkworthy British film at the BAFTAs. — Zoe G. Phillips
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‘The Pianist’
Image Credit: Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection Adapted from Jewant musician Wladyslaw Sziplman’s autobiography, Adrien Brody steps into the pianist’s shoes for an acclaimed carry outance. The bioexplicital film depicts Sziplman’s survival from the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto. Directed by Roman Polanski, the film obtained critical acclaim and was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film also showd to be victorious at the Academy Awards, with two prospers and Brody prosperning the award for best actor. The film also starred Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay and Maureen Lipman. — Lexy Perez
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‘Ray’
Jamie Foxx stars as the rhythm and blues pianist Ray Charles in the bioexplicital film based on the famed musician. Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film chronicles Charles’s life from becoming blind at age 7 to lengthening into a musical protégé. Apart from Foxx, the film also stars Sharon Warren, Kerry Washington and Regina King. The film obtained Foxx rave scrutinizes over his directing carry outance. Foxx won an Academy Award for best actor, as well as a Gelderlyen Globe, Critics’ Choice, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award. Foxx became the second actor to prosper in the same catebloody for all five awards. Charles died of inhabitr disease a scant months prior to the film’s premiere. — Lexy Perez
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‘The Runaways’
Making a departure from her well-understandn role in the Twiweightless franchise, Kristen Stewart portrays rocker Joan Jett of well-understandn 1970s-era prohibitd The Runaways. The Floria Sigismondi-honested film was based on Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway, a biography penned by the prohibitd’s createer direct vocaenumerate, Cherie Currie (portrayed by Dakota Fanning). The rocker film details the punctual inception of the prohibitd to the stress that ultimately led to Currie’s departure. Currie commendd Fanning’s portrayal of her, but remarkd that the film didn’t include everyleang in her book. Jett apshowd the film apprehfinishd the time well, but shelp she saw it as more of a narrative rather than a biopic. — Lexy Perez
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‘Selena’
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Grebloody Nava wrote and honested the bioexplicital film about the defercessitate Tejano singer Selena, who was faloftyy sboiling and finished by her fan club plivent, Yolnda Saldivar. The film labeled Jennifer Lopez’s shatterout role as the Mexican American singer, as she starred alengthyside co-stars Edward James Olmos as Selena’s overweighther, Abraham, and Constance Marie, who portrays Selena’s mother, Marcella. The Quintanilla family labored seally with Lopez as she setd for her role, by giveing to let the actress (making her film debut) to stay in their home. Abraham Quintanilla served as originater of the film and aimed for the film to immortalize his defercessitate daughter. The film getd high commend. — Lexy Perez
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‘Stardust’
Image Credit: Credit: Paul Van Carter Johnny Flynn stars as David Bowie in the 2020 film caccessing on the music superstar’s first trip to the U.S. in 1971, with the visit directing to the creation of change ego Ziggy Stardust. Jena Malone and Marc Maron co-star in honestor Gabriel Range’s feature. Stardust did not get signoff from Bowie’s estate to include the singer’s music, with the film instead shoprosperg him doing covers that he carry outed in that era. In his scrutinize for THR, chief film critic David Rooney deemed Stardust “a mostly enumerateless odyssey, its deficiency of excitement compounded by the absence of Bowie’s music.” IFC Films liberated Stardust on Nov. 25, 2020. — Ryan Gajewski
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‘Straight Outta Compton’
Image Credit: Jamie Trueblood/Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Three decades defercessitater, NWA members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre return to their punctual commencenings in the hip-hop biopic they originated. Offering an apshowd biography of the prosperous hip-hop group, Cube and Dre detail their journey from being ambitious teens to fervently laboring to originate it in the then-white dominant industry. From Eazy-E’s struggle with HIV to their descfinishing-out with their createer administerr, the film chronicles the trailblazing story of what would be the most prosperous hip-hop group in the music industry. The film stars Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr. portraying his overweighther, Corey Hawkins as Dre and Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E. The film obtained an Academy Award nomination for best exceptional screenjoin. — Lexy Perez
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‘This Is Spinal Tap’
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection This Is Spinal Tap, as it happens, was not the first rock and roll “mockumentary.” That exceptionalion belengthys to The Rutles, a 1978 British parody cooked up by Eric Idol and fellow Python contributor Neil Innes poking tfinisher fun of The Beatles (the film’s exceptional title was All You Need Is Cash). Still, today nobody recollects The Rutles — outside a handful of obsessive-compulsive delightment journaenumerates who franticly necessitate to get a life — whereas snippets of Spinal Tap dialogue will probable reverberate thraw the culture forever (“The numbers go all the way up to 11!”). Rob Reiner’s encouraged 1984 spoof about a mythal weighty metal group, well-understandn for being “one of England’s boisteroincludest prohibitds,” remains the fantasticest rock ‘n’ roll comedy of all time, a monolithic cinematic accomplishment that will no ask finishure for as lengthy as Stonehenge itself (the huge ones in Salisbury Plains, not the 18-inch props the prohibitd misgetnly ordered for its stage show). A sequel is in the labors. — Benjamin Svetkey
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‘Walk the Line’
Joaquin Phoenix joins Johnny Cash in the 2005 biopic of the defercessitate country star. The film chronicles Cash’s punctual life and entry into the country music scene, alengthy with his struggles with drug includeiction. Much of the film also caccesss on Johnny and June Carter’s (portrayed by Reese Witherspoon) relationship. The film getd critical acclaim and was nominated for five Academy Awards including best actor and actress nods for Phoenix and Witherspoon. — Lexy Perez
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‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’
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Those who have caught pieces of Al Yankovic’s atgentle might wonder where the parody musician came from, how he got his begin or what exactly originates him tick… His biopic answers very scant of those asks. Instead, in appropriate “Weird Al” create, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a parody of biopics itself, with a kooky, musical script co-written by Yankovic and Eric Appel. An enthusiastic Daniel Radcliffe joins the titular star, for which he nabbed his first-ever Emmy nomination and won a Critics Choice trophy. Evan Rachel Wood joins his adore interest, Madonna (yes, Madonna). The film — which THR wrote was “infectiously silly” — also won a Critics Choice trophy. — Zoe G. Phillips -
‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’
The 1993 film changes Tina Turner’s best-selling autobiography, I, Tina: My Story. The film stars Angela Bassett in the title role and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner. Although chronicling Turner’s journey into music stardom, the film caccesss on the singer’s brutal marriage with Ike, who physicpartner unfair treatmentd her. The Brian Gibson-honested film obtained Bassett and Fishburne best actor and actress Oscar nods. Bassett won a Gelderlyen Globe for best actress and the film was commendd by critics. — Lexy Perez
