Timothée Chalamet and the Rise of the Try-Hards March 04, 2025
There was a lot of hype that Timothée Chalamet, 29, might become the youngest man ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He did not take a trophy home last night—Adrien Brody snagged it for his turn in The Brutalist—but Chalamet should be appl...
Toward Good Art, and Art Itself March 03, 2025
Last year, the New York Times published a list of what its critics deemed the best books of the 21st century. (So far.) Offices and book clubs across the country chattered about which books made it and which got snubbed, which were ranked higher and ...
Timothée Chalamet Does Dylan January 03, 2025
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown rests on three fairly safe assumptions about our culture. First, that many people enjoy conventional biopics. Second, that many people enjoy the actor Timothée Chalamet. And third, that many people buy into the idea...
Printing the Legend December 30, 2024
At last, the wait is over. Director James Mangold’s eagerly awaited Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown finally arrived in US theatres on Christmas Day, following special preview screenings at selected IMAX theatres earlier in December. Its release w...
'A Complete Unknown' Isn’t Really About Bob Dylan December 23, 2024
As impossible a task as doubling one of the 20th century’s most distinctive figures might be, Timothée Chalamet largely measures up to it in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, which follows Bob Dylan from his arrival on the Greenwich Village folk sc...
A Conversation With Timothée Chalamet December 16, 2024
If there was any doubt as to how Bob Dylan feels about Timothée Chalamet playing him in A Complete Unknown, it ended on Dec. 4, when the 83-year-old Nobel Prize-winning legend declared on X, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be com...
A Complete Unknown’ Review December 11, 2024
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 m...