In Walk the Line, James Mangold’s entertaining 2005 account of how Johnny Cash found his sound and the love of his life in June Carter, first-rate actors and rousing musical interludes helped boost a conventional bio-drama approach that sanded down many of the complexities of the legendary Man in Black. Mangold’s new film, A Complete Unknown, follows a comparable path in examining the emergence of Bob Dylan from the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early ’60s. It has many similar strengths but different weaknesses, though Timothée Chalamet’s electrifying — in every sense — lead performance is not among the latter.
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