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Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great in battle armor, likely from a scene in Oliver Stone's 2004 film.

Alexander (2004) Review

Alexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…

Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman at a piano, gaunt and thin, in a scene from The Pianist.

The Pianist (2002) Review

The Pianist (2002) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Polanski survived the Krakow Ghetto as a child and spent sixty years declining to film the Holocaust before he made this. It won the Palme d'Or and three…

F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri in period costume, face showing anguish or concentration. TITLE: Amadeus 1984 Salieri

Amadeus (1984) Review

Amadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) film poster

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

Made viewers cry in theaters. The production combines archival footage from the program with new interviews and exploration of Rogers's larger cultural significance.

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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Bryan Singer's 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic. Queen's Live Aid recreation.

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The Theory of Everything (2014)

James Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.

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Oppenheimer (2023)

Christopher Nolan's 2023 Manhattan Project biopic. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer.

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Capote (2005)

Bennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor.

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Walk the Line (2005)

James Mangold's 2005 Johnny Cash biopic. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Cash and June Carter.

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The Social Network (2010)

David Fincher's 2010 Facebook origin drama. Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Garfield as Saverin.

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Schindler’s List (1993)

Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.

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Gandhi (1982)

Richard Attenborough's 1982 Gandhi biopic. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.