Biopics

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Cabrini review – lushly mounted hagiography of the first US saint to be canonised
Biopic of an Italian nun who moves to New York to build orphanages in the slums portrays her as wholly holy in her mission

Leslie Felperin

11, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Cillian Murphy wins best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer
Irish actor takes the award for his role as nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic

Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

11, Mar, 2024 @2:00 AM

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Origin review – Ava DuVernay’s uneven biopic of journalist Isabel Wilkerson and her writing on race
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is magnetic as the US author of Caste in an ambitious if didactic film that struggles to encapsulate ​her life and work

Wendy Ide

10, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM

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‘You’ll believe a radioactive dinosaur can shoot fire’: readers’ picks for the 2024 Oscars
From a ‘tuning fork’ actor to non-sensational cannibalism, an under-the-radar animation to a triple-language’d tour-de-force, your choices ranged far and wide

Guardian readers

06, Mar, 2024 @12:00 PM

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‘Nothing off limits’: Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles films – one about each member
Director of 1917 announces ambitious project which has full approval of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison

Catherine Shoard

20, Feb, 2024 @3:45 PM

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Bob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this
British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley and the magnetic Lashana Lynch as Marley’s wife, Rita, are let down by this deferential biopic’s undercooked screenplay

Wendy Ide

17, Feb, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Ridley Scott set to direct Bee Gees biopic
Fresh from filming Gladiator 2, the British director is being lined up for a project about the Stayin’ Alive singers, produced by the company that made Bohemian Rhapsody

Andrew Pulver

16, Feb, 2024 @12:02 PM

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The Iron Claw review – crowd-pleasing wrestling saga grapples with toxic masculinity
A career-best turn from Zac Efron, plus a tide of true-life triumph and tragedy, power director Sean Durkin’s bone-crunching drama

Wendy Ide

11, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Streaming: the best films about artists
From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

Guy Lodge

10, Feb, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up
With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions

Peter Bradshaw

08, Feb, 2024 @6:00 PM

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Full trailer for Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black released
Much hyped Sam Taylor-Johnson film stars Marisa Abela as the singer, who died at her north London home in 2011

Guardian film

02, Feb, 2024 @2:48 PM

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‘It was buy eggs or put money on my travel card’: actor Lashana Lynch on Bond, Bob Marley and being broke
She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety net

Tshepo Mokoena

27, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM

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