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Maestro

Maestro

2023

Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke ...

5.7

4,914

Drama A portrait of Leonard Bernstein's singular charisma and passion for music as he rose to fame as America's first native born, world-renowned conductor, all along following his ambition to compose both symphonic and popular Broadway works.

	Author	Review
United States	Marlow Stern Rolling Stone	"An absolute marvel (...) this is not just a worthy tribute to one of the greatest figures in the American musical canon, but also one of the finest films of the year."	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"An astonishingly beautiful film, by turns heartbreaking, tragic and tender, one that is fully constructed around two incessantly committed career-high performances. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"In his second film as a director, Cooper places himself on a high wire and carries it off, working with a pointillistic intimacy that invests every moment with fascination and surprise. (...) Cooper and Mulligan make the movie a duet to remember."	POS
United Kingdom	Nicholas Barber BBC	"Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan shine in Cooper's ambitious and sincere drama of Leonard Bernstein's life, proving the director is to be taken seriously (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Cooper makes good on the promise of 'A Star is Born' with a Netflix bio-drama as stirringly symphonic and emotional as the subject’s music."	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"'Maestro' somehow proves that Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it's not a particularly successful movie"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Cooper’s impersonation of the great composer is eerily exact (...) 'Maestro' succeeds because it is candid about the sacrifices which art demands of its practitioners (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"An impressively-mounted, if uneven, portrait of composer Leonard Bernstein (...) but Maestro is honest about the larger-than-life flaws of its central character, and Cooper is impressive in the role."	POS
United States	Rafaela Sales Ross The Playlist	"Cooper believes his portrayal of Felicia to be progressive but is regressive in adding the activist to the beaten trope of 'the woman behind the man'"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"In his first film as director since A Star is Born, Cooper captures the life of the great conductor with head-spinning ambition and emotion (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"It would be worth the price of admission just for the music, but the sharp dramatic focus on the iconic life behind all of it makes it memorable, and a film that meets its subject head on."	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Bradley Cooper’s elegant, ambitious biopic is a symphonic love story with sparkling, awards-worthy performances (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"'Maestro' succeeds off the chemistry between Mulligan and Cooper, but the film often looks and feels too fussed-over, almost too precisely manicured, to ever erase its own parameters as a linear biopic."	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	The 'Star is Born' filmmaker shows he’s no one-hit wonder, with Carey Mulligan meeting him beat-for-beat (...) Like any good conductor, Cooper knows that the smallest of gestures elicits the most thunderous response.	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The pieces are all there, just improperly assembled (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Jo-Ann Titmarsh London Evening Standard	"Like Bernstein’s music, this movie won’t appeal to everybody, but it is an accomplished and moving biopic of two fascinating people (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Alex Harrison Screen Rant	"[It] is not a biopic of an artist so much as a human artwork, capturing the questions he provokes and the contradictory answers that define him (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Bradley Cooper orchestrates an elegant portrayal of the brilliant but selfish Leonard Bernstein (...) Directing and doing the best acting of his career (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"Maestro is so consistently spectacular from an aesthetic perspective that it’s worth watching. (...) Bernstein took chances with his work; that’s what made him great. 'Maestro' would have been stronger if it had done the same (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"It is a grand, messy symphony of moments (...) Bradley Cooper tells the conductor’s story, and that of his wife, with electric, sometimes scattershot verv (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Hanna Ines Flint IGN	"Bradley Cooper delivers a deep and dazzling portrait of Leonard Bernstein"	POS
United States	Kenji Fujishima Slant	"Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic hits a bum note (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Christian Holub Entertainment Weekly	"[It] deserves the same level of respect from viewers as one of Bernstein's public performances of the music of Mahler"	POS
United Kingdom	James Mottram Radio Times	"A heartfelt work of astonishing beauty (...) offers a stellar performance from lead Bradley Cooper"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"[It] is one of the year’s great marriage stories"	POS
United States	Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader	"The movie is made for Mulligan to shine in an otherwise-dull film"	NEU
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"Indeed, Maestro is a film full of 'the right calls' and the type of movie that sneaks up on you. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it but was profoundly moved when the credits rolled. Indeed, it’s one of the year’s best movies"	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"While plenty of scenes in 'Maestro' have their discrete power—teeming with insight and impressive artistry—it’s only in an appreciation of Mulligan and Cooper’s full-bodied work that the greater whole finds resonance"	POS
United Kingdom	Jane Crowther Total Film	"Career-best performances from Cooper and Mulligan (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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