The 8 Music Biopics We Want to See Next

Biopics that stretch through the entirety of a musician’s life can be a slog — or, even worse, sanitized through a greatest-hits lens to appease estates to get them across the finish line. Two recent films about fabled rock stars, however, smartly chose to deviate from the norm and zoom in on very specific parts of their protagonists’ lives, warts and all. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere focused on the somewhat tortured creation of the Boss’s 1982 album, Nebraska, while last year’s A Complete Unknown followed Bob Dylan during his early folk years until he dared to — gasp — go electric in 1965. (The latter earned Timothée Chalamet an Oscar nomination, while Jeremy Allen White is a serious contender in the current Best Actor race.) Both films were met with a strong critical