A Complete Unknown - Reviews

In wandering hero terms, Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown is less a George Stevens’ Western like Shane and more an Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo – with guitars.

The Bob Dylan biopic fits into James Mangold's pattern: A brainy story, accessibly, rousingly, energetically told.

One of the most convincing interpretations of a musician ever.

The performances here are the film’s strongest hand. Chalamet is superb, avoiding a cartoonish impression for something naturalistic and often boyishly arrogant...

Timothée Chalamet radiates charisma in evocative Dylan biopic.

Like its subject has done so many times in his six-decade career, this one exceeds expectations.

Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan is an electric revelation.

Timothée Chalamet breaks the biopic mold (and made me a first-time fan of Bob Dylan).

...Timothée Chalamet... ...his brilliant, layered and at times downright astonishing work as Bob Dylan...

...don’t think twice about seeing this brilliant Bob Dylan biopic.

Like “I’m Not There” before it, “A Complete Unknown” would rather celebrate Dylan’s mystery than attempt to explain it...

Chalamet embodies Dylan in a quite literal sense; he’s clearly studied the tape and does a more than passable mimicry of Dylan’s voice and performing style.

Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan is an Oscar-worthy performance.

...Mangold has crafted the definitive portrait of this era and the poetic, aspiring, rebellious kid who refused to be pigeonholed, held down and defined.