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  • Diving Bell And The Butterf The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

    Nov 29, 2007

    Julian Schnabel’s string of biopics about unexpected people continues with this touching portrait of Jean-Dominique Bauby.

  • American Gangster American Gangster

    Nov 01, 2007

    Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe battle wits in this sprawling portrait of gangsterism in '70s Harlem.

  • Music Within Music Within

    Oct 25, 2007

    An inspiring story about getting past disabilities makes for a less-than-inspired film.

  • Control Control

    Oct 12, 2007

    Anton Cobijn's biopic on Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis gets all the details right, to its credit and detriment.

  • Moliere Molière

    Aug 02, 2007

    In this playful non-biopic, the great French satirist gets into misadventures in the sticks before making his bow on the Paris stage.

  • El Cantante El Cantante

    Aug 02, 2007

    What did salsa legend Hector Levoe have in common with Ray Charles and Edie Sedgwick? A story that lent itself to biopic clichés.

  • Becoming Jane Becoming Jane

    Aug 02, 2007

    Jane Austen's life story never quite reached the bliss of her independent-minded protagonists. Until now.

  • Goyas Ghost Goya's Ghosts

    Jul 20, 2007

    After a seven-year hiatus, director Milos Forman returns with this drama about the Spanish painter's tangle with the Inquisition. Sort of.

  • Talk To Me Talk To Me

    Jul 13, 2007

    The fascinating life of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, a talk-radio fixture for nearly two decades in D.C., gets the biopic treatment.

  • La Vie En Rose La Vie En Rose

    Jun 08, 2007

    Add Edith Piaf to the list of tortured artists featured in torturous biopics.