1951 biopic of pianist, Eileen Joyce
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Tasked with playing a fictionalised version of Bruce Springsteen’s girlfriend in biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Australian actress Odessa Young nailed it – according to none other than The
7.5
... may trip into the odd musical biopic trope to its own detriment, but as both a viscerally personal snapshot in the life of Bruce Springsteen, and a document of
The 1946 biopic of Charles Kingsford-Smith that ended Ken G Hall’s movie career
6.5
... intimate and atmospheric but ultimately lacks the voltage to make Springsteen’s creative solitude truly sing.
4.5
… a disappointing barrage of botches.
8.5
If the story is simple enough, it is the acting that lifts it out of the ordinary.
Set against the grit of post-war Wales, MR. BURTON is the extraordinary true story of a working-class boy destined for greatness and the teacher who saw it first. When Philip Burton, a
5
… a sentimental biopic about a tedious woman.