biopic

Eyeing a long line of commercial hits, “The Hill” attempts to reverse-engineer the process, scraping together exceedingly overused truisms to concoct a hackneyed imitation.

As expected from Nolan, “Oppenheimer” is another fantastic addition to his illustrious body of work.

I love movies about real, extraordinary people. In honor of the “Oppenheimer” release, these are my favorite movies (and one show) also based on a true story.

While Smocyznka’s craftsmanship impresses as stellar and melancholic amidst a trend of monotone biopics, it stands far from critical acclaim.

“The great storytellers like Shakespeare, they didn't really do biographies,” Luhrmann mused in a virtual press conference. “They took a life, and they use the life as a canvas to explore a larger idea.”

With “Churchill,” von Tunzelmann and Teplitzky don’t merely settle for telling another historical drama — they present viewers with a complete, flawed human being, one whose controversial but massive influence carries on to this day.

The stories across the final four are various in both time and person, and they showcase how different, yet wholly affecting, the biopic genre can be.