In recent years we've seen a flurry of music biopics. What makes a good biopic?
NPRIn recent years we've seen a flurry of music biopics. ASMA KHALID, HOST: The origin story of Bob Dylan gets the big-screen treatment with the release this week of "A Complete Unknown," the new movie starring Timothee Chalamet. Sometimes you get the cinematic equivalent of, like, a jukebox musical, where you've got these recreations of songs and impersonations, but there's not much else to say beyond that, which I don't think is an issue with "A Complete Unknown." A movie like "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould," where the structure of the film is really inventive, and so you're not just getting this point-by-point recitation of somebody's career. KHALID: That's Stephen Thompson of NPR Music and POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR talking about the new Bob Dylan biopic, "A Complete Unknown."
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