Maestro (Bradley Cooper, 2023) wr. Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer; Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan
This is Bradley Cooper's Citizen Kane, but with Cooper displaying a much wider range of skills than Orson Welles possessed, and with much better makeup. I don't think there's any chance that Cooper will ever be reduced to flogging photocopiers in television advertisements.
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 288 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Led by a pair of powerful performances, Maestro serves as a stirring overview of a tremendous talent's life and legacy." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100, based on 60 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
BBC Culture's Nicholas Barber wrote, "Maestro confirms what was suggested by Cooper's directorial debut, A Star Is Born. He has sky-high ambitions, and he has the technical virtuosity and big-hearted sincerity to fulfil those ambitions with flair." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it a "layered examination" of a complex marriage, and particularly lauded Mulligan's "heartbreaking" performance.
Peter Bradshaw:
In the end, Cooper’s Maestro succeeds because it is candid about the sacrifices which art demands of its practitioners, and the sacrifices these practitioners demand of their families and partners. Bernstein was never going to compromise who he was, no matter how much he loved his wife. There is a sad, wintry acceptance of that. The Guardian.
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