| It's the sort of bell-curve narrative that's become all too common in Hollywood biopics. |
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| I hate the montage approach many biopics take, and boy, do they use it to no end here. |
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| The best biopics are ones like this, ones that don't try to tell the whole sweep of a life but rather examine one aspect. |
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| There is a delightful comedy in the Oscar mix and three period biopics that reach for triumph in the face of adversity. |
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| In the film's defense, I will say that most biopics stretch facts to maximize dramatic impact. |
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| Ross doesn't resort to the dumbing-down tactics favored by Hollywood in biopics. |
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| As so often is the case in musical biopics, the available historical facts are subsumed by the narrative exigencies of the genre. |
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| Character building biopics have a formula, which has Made In Hollywood stamped all over them. |
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| Good biopics struggle to present a truth, if not the truth, about their subjects. |
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| The lives of the great and gifted have always been fair game for movie biopics. |
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| Over the years, Hollywood has had what seems like a love-hate affair with biopics. |
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| And then there was the crippling nerves that it would not be good, especially given the recent spate of really bad TV biopics. |
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| Most political biopics depict the personal life of the main figure while flattening out the historical details in order to make them more understandable, or palatable. |
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| These two have been working together since they were college roommates at USC Film School, and they really wanted to make an over the top comedy after doing biopics. |
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| Toby Jones and Anthony Hopkins are going head to head in duelling biopics of Hollywood's heaviest heavyweight, the master of suspense himself. |
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| The Imitation Game was one of an unusual number of biopics screened at the festival based on the lives of those still fresh in memory. |
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| The Girl puts its case more strongly, but as far as both biopics are concerned, the real monster on Hitchcock's sets was behind the camera. |
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| Sheen has become better known as a screen actor since the 2000s, in particular through his roles in various biopics. |
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| In a movie market crowded with prestige biopics, fictional comedies, concert movies, documentaries and mockumentaries, Frank is aiming for something a bit alternative. |
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