Movie Reviews

A Complete Unknown offers a competent but unremarkable portrayal of Bob Dylan

By Josh Bell

It's become a running joke among film critics and cinephiles that Jake Kasdan's 2007 parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was so effective that it destroyed the idea of the conventional music biopic. The truth, though, is that clichéd music biopics have flourished at the box office since then, and audiences are apparently eager to see the lives of famous musicians presented in a straightforward, comforting manner...

Elf @ Garland Theater

Mon., Dec. 23, 5 p.m.
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