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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 9 m
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 9 m
Summary Netflix's drama traces the complex love story of composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children.
Directed By: Bradley Cooper
Written By: Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 9 m
- 2023
- R
- 2 h 9 m
Maestro
77
6.9
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Summary Netflix's drama traces the complex love story of composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children.
Directed By: Bradley Cooper
Written By: Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 Critic Reviews
77
82% Positive
49 Reviews
49 Reviews
18% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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We see the work, the figurative (and sometimes literal) sweat that went into crafting these characters. It’s capital-M Movie Acting, and I couldn’t love it more. It moved me.
Engrave an Oscar for actor-director Bradley Cooper for his heart-full-to-bursting tour de force as composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein. Alive with glorious music, the film soars on the undying love the bisexual legend feels for the wife (a never-better Carey Mulligan) who lives with his angels and demons.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
6.9
64% Positive
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25% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
6.9
64% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
25% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
11% Negative
3 Ratings
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El mayor atractivo son los esfuerzos de Bradley Cooper, como hombre orquesta, para dirigir, actuar y producir un guion escrito por él mismo. La suma es una biografía que evita lo convencional y despierta la curiosidad del espectador.
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Superb! See it in a movie theatre. It's hard to believe that Bradley Cooper directed and acted as LB in this film. He truly is an extraordinary talent. Cinematically excellent and his performance is captivating. I found myself smiling often at what he etched out portraying Leonard Bernstein. Nuanced and inspiring. It should win him the Oscar. Carry Mulligan is equally as brilliant. It's going to be a difficult year for Oscar voters. So many great performances. Her's is my favorite this year.
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If the film is a tad baggy and unruly that seems by design and thus less a critique than an accurate assessment. But overall and while painting so boldly on such a broad canvas (the film spans decades and calls on its actors and make-up department to work overtime in delineating the passage of time) Maestro emerges as a bombastic aria of a biopic befitting its central subject.
An accomplished and classy follow-up to A Star is Born then, and one that proves Cooper is more than a one-hit wonder. But as an examination of artistic temperament, sexual voracity, and the patient women who love conductors, Maestro’s thunder has been stolen to a degree by Tár.
There are dazzling, funny, heartbreaking sequences throughout this examination of the music legend and his complicated personal life, but they are undercut by aspects that might have benefited from more attention or deeper thought.
What is most conspicuously absence is a hint, in even the vaguest technical terms, of what made Bernstein such an admired conductor and composer. It is not enough to have people tell us (and him) he’s a genius. The film does, however, give us a dramatic tribute to the passion he put into his work.
Directed by Cooper, who also co-wrote the script with Josh Singer, the film serves up so much Sturm und Drang about the great man’s messed-up private life that it barely bothers to explore his creative genius.
I wish i was able to watch this in the big screen instead, but i guess Netflix has their own money to acquire the film and surely they make a good decision to put another great "Netflix Film" so their name was not completely bashed because Maestro was in fact a really really great movie, an amazing film starring and directed by Bradley Cooper with his stunning and fascinating filmmaking technique, fills with incredible performances especially both Bradley Cooper and the must considered Oscar 2024 nominee for best actress Carey Mulligan, a wonderfully captured yet complicated relationship, the black and white decision that necessary, with the whole film fills with Bernstein own music and score was just incredible, while i do have one big criticism for the film which i just felt there a lot of scene could've been more powerful, mostly with Cooper depiction as Bernstein as he is quite distracting at times just could've been more powerful, and nit picky here and there but the rest of Maestro was an interesting love journey fills with great performances and great filmmaking, it kept me intrigued the whole time and i wasn't bored at all, it's one of the best films of the year, and it's one of my favorite films of the year, Maestro was amazing.
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Give the Oscar for Best Actress to Carrie Mulliagn.
Sparks fly when the lovely Felicia meets up and coming Maestro Leonard Bernstein.
Only life with Leonard gets messy.
No marraige is ever perfect, and living w/Bernstein has just as many "ups" as it does "downs".
Maestro is a beautiful movie.
But it's Carrie Mulligans put-upon wife Felicia that broke my heart
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A movie that tries to be serious but ends up being absurd. Good acting. Cinematography is nice; the scenes have a nice feel to them. Bernstein has a terrific body of work associated with him and this film wanted to focus on his sexuality. Pretty vulgar to shove this down the viewer's throats for two hours when there is so much other material one could focus on that make Bernstein memorable. Our view: "skip this as it's not what it really pretends to be."
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A primeira parte desta incursão do Bradely Cooper para contar a vida do famoso Leonard Bernstein até que se sai muito bem, e com uma direção do Cooper que está muito mais à vontade (embora com muitos maneirismo também). Claramente há aqui uma busca por uma estatuet... digo, estilização.
No sentido de querer fazer do filme algo que não é, ou de querer lhe conferir uma arte manipulativa, anda orgânica, tudo se tornou um tom acima: a caracterização dos personagens, o sotaque, os enquadramentos, a forte iluminação. E o texto não acompanha, prefere o subtendido, o que exigiria uma certa dose de maturidade do roteiro para trabalhar o drama, coisa que infelizmente não acontece.
É quando o filme embarca na vida pessoal do maestro, na relação meio "aberta" que tivera com sua esposa, que o filme derrapa. E veja, para ser justo, acho importante que o filme nunca nomeie os envolvidos por nomes contemporâneos, ficando longe assim do anacronismo (você não ouvirá o termo relacionamento aberto ou ****), o que é um ponto positivo. Tirando isso, há uma salada aqui: o primeiro rapaz que aparece na cama com o protagonista é totalmente esquecido na segunda parte; a esposa ganha contornos que engolem a própria história do música (inclusive o filme termina com ela); a carreira do retratado, mal sabemos a que pé anda; as passagens do tempo são muito mal exploradas; as cenas exercendo a profissão, não passam a emoção necessária, apoiada por uma câmera que quer a todo o instante focar no maneirismo do Cooper (apenas dois números realmente foram dignos).
Todo o elemento dramático, a relação com a filha mais velha, os rumores, tudo é tão insípido, corrido e ao mesmo tempo arrastado, e pior, pincelado, sem dar conta da vida do representado. Saímos com mais desconhecimento.
Fica a sensação de que o filme teria uma versão estendida, porque não é possível. Ou só foi feito um recorte para pôr o Cooper e a Mulligan em condições de mostrar seus talentos cênicos, em um tom completamente formulaico do roteiro.
Filmes assim nem são novidades na corrida pelo Oscar, o grande problema é vir do streaming, que poderia ter mais liberdade artística. Mas ao preferir focar no raso e em explosões pontuais para os atores mostrarem serviço de forma nada convincente ao espectador, a sensação que passa é de um "Oscar streaming bait" dos mais desperdiçados, pois tinha conteúdo ali, talvez em outra cinebiografia.
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I went into watching this movie with an open mind despite the criticism of being Cooper's latest Oscar bait vanity project. I came out of it with mixed feeling.
Carey Mulligan is the light of this movie. Her performance alone is worth watching the movie. However i didn't feel any authenticity coming from Bradley Cooper, he tries to hard and the directing and dscreenplay (from Cooper again) suffer for it.
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Production Company
Sikelia Productions,
Amblin Entertainment,
Fred Berner Films,
Netflix,
Lea Pictures
Release Date Nov 22, 2023
Duration 2 h 9 m
Rating R
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 8 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 8 Nominations
