Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
It’s sometimes okay for movies to rely on tropes or formulas a little here and there, so long as it’s not overdone or executed in ways that prove distracting. It’s pretty easy to turn on a movie that gets too formulaic, though, and no genre seems to have a higher percentage of films where such a thing happens than the humble biographical film.
Also, elephant in the room kind of thing incoming, but it is also a film that starred and was directed by Kevin Spacey, which might well make it harder for many to watch the film today. It goes over the life of times of American musician Bobby Darin in a thoroughly formulaic way, and underperformed, grossing only about one-third of its budget .
8 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Director: Bryan Singer Hey look, it’s the movie people like because Queen was a band that made good music. Make no mistake: Queen was great, but Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t really do them justice, and it certainly dulled down the dramatic life story of frontman Freddie Mercury. Like the following year’s Judy, Bohemian Rhapsody sometimes feels like it’s come into existence to give Rami Malek an opportunity to win an Oscar.
It's a bit like the John Lennon film Nowhere Boy, in that regard, but not quite as good . England Is Mine is just sort of there and then it’s gone, offering a tiny amount of insight into a less well-explored part of Morrissey’s life, but ultimately not giving enough to feel meaningful or substantial.
Now, any movie about Winehouse that comes out in the wake of the excellent 2015 documentaryAmy has a great deal to live up to, because that’s pretty much the definitive film about the singer’s rise to fame, personal demons, tragic passing, and horrible mistreatment at the hands of the media and the public at large.
3 'Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B' Director: Bradley Walsh Aaliyah was a musician/actress whose career was cut particularly short by an early passing, as she died in an airplane accident at only 22 years of age, ultimately only releasing three albums and having two movie credits to her name.
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