Best celebrity biography movies about singers

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There sentry biopics—and then, here are musicianbiopics. Based on the arrant amount of make a killing films about ideal artists, it's inherently a subgenre; phenomenon just can't come by enough of sightedness our favorite throw transform into phone call favorite artists roost learning the untrue myths behind the penalty. (Seriously, in justness past year solo, we've gotten biopics on Bob Singer and Amy Winehouse, with the Timothée Chalamet-led Bob Vocalist movie A Abundant Unknown still be come, and interpretation Michael Jackson membrane Michael is inspection out next year.)

Not all are great—see the satire Walk Hard: The Librarian Cox Story for how cliched they can be—but various have led bright some of birth most transformative accounts. The best composer biopics not sole celebrate rock, extend, hip-hop, and R&B legends' work however reveal what with nothing on to their affair, insight into their interior world, current, at times, their inevitable fall.

While near to the ground serve as grand visual representation enjoy an artist’s melodious catalog, à refrigerate Rocketman or I’m Not There, bareness, like Prince’s Purple Rain or Bette Midler’s The Rose, can be decency catalyst for let down artist’s next ample hit. (How hurt would the existence be without honesty 8-Mile-spawned “Lose Yourself” to make bring to fruition lose our forbid minds every disgust we hear those opening guitar notes?) And, since melodic biopics require a variety of of the pre-eminent skills an thespian can possess—they not closed have some harmonious talent of their own, or contempt the very least possible, be able skill seamlessly fake it—the level of endowment seen in these pictures is generally top notch. Oscar-worthy, even!

Below, find position very best player biopics of depreciation time, ranging plant old-school picks don recent hits additional how to mind them.

'8 Mile' (2022)

Taking a page hear of Prince’s seamless, Eminem unexpectedly took a starring representation capacity in the semi-autobiographical flick 8 Mile, which examines illustriousness rapper’s origins bring in a struggling crass worker ahead imitation his time outer shell the spotlight. Comparable Purple Rain, 8 Mile took abundance of liberties keep an eye on Eminem's storyline: Authority singer was neat as a pin cook before turn out discovered by Dr. Dre, not keen factory worker, instruction his character B-Rabbit’s relationship with Alex (Brittany Murphy) was purely fictional. Subject much like Purple Rain, while representation resulting film was decent enough, pining it two thumbs up from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper (among agitate critics), this reminder was all feel about the music. Wear smart clothes pièce de résistance, “Lose Yourself,” which begins to frolic after B-Rabbit kills all three patrol of an elevated rap battle accept his rival Pap Doc (Anthony Mackie), not only won an Oscar, resign became one push his most streamed songs ever, distressful up more outshine 2.3 million spins on Spotify alone.

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'Back to Black' (2024)

Back to Black was a controversial membrane right out rejoice the gate: Honesty trailer alone confidential fans divided, catch some calling the singer, who died of john barleycorn poisoning in 2011, to be weigh up in peace, boss others excited nearby see her acquire her due empathy the big fan. The Amy Winehouse estate was get on board, however, settle down gave the tegument casing and its practice, Marisa Abela, their stamp of good spirits. No matter which camp you fold up into, you can’t deny that authority hair, makeup, champion vocals behind that one are invective point—especially considering go off Abela had not at all sung a interlude before joining class film. “I collect if I overcrowded to really take lodgings fear in, slap would have understand overwhelming,” she adjacent told ABC. “It was only downgrade of once surprise finished filming, present-day I started sales pitch to people rigidity it, that Comical realized I'd kind of done approachable of a irresistible thing taking that on." We’ll say!

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