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Film Review - Maestro

Film Review - Maestro

Bradley Cooper directs and stars in an absorbing Leonard Bernstein biopic, but the real standout is Carey Mulligan

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Dec 16, 2023
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Bradley Cooper’s previous directorial labour of love, A Star Is Born (2018), did the impossible, in that it exceeded my love for all earlier versions (no small feat), and wound up as my favourite film of that year. Maestro, a biopic about legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, failed to generate the same level of love, but it…

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