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Genre: Music

Biopics, backstage stories and films built around a performance. The trap is always the same: the music is real and the script is a Wikipedia summary. Three reviews, Elvis and Judy among them, neither rating above 6 out of 10.

Two teenage girls stand on a neon-lit 42nd Street at night, surrounded by theater marquees and storefronts in 1970s Times

Times Square (1980) Review

Times Square (1980) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two teenage girls live rough in pre-cleanup Times Square and form a band, in a film that was recut against its director's wishes, had a relationship removed from…

Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland, performing at a microphone in a sequined dress during the London engagement sequences.

Judy (2019) Review

Judy (2019) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for a technically accomplished transformation inside a film that exists to contain it, covering Judy Garland's five-week London run five months before her death.

Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in a concert performance, wearing leather and standing in front of an audience. TITLE: Elvis

Elvis (2022) Review

Elvis (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Austin Butler is genuinely extraordinary and the film around him is narrated by his manager, edited at about four cuts a second for the first hour, and structured as…