
2023 is proving to be the year of the biopic. While each year produces at least a couple of well-produced and well-marketed movies about the dramatization of a particular person’s life (or people), 2023 has more than usual. It is a trend I see continuing into future years. With films about Michael Jordan (
Air), George Foreman (
Big George Foreman), J. Robert Oppenheimer (
Oppenheimer), Emily Brontë (
Emily), Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (
Chevalier), Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon), Henk Rogers (
Tetris), Richard Montañez (
Flamin Hot), Leonard Bernstein (
Maestro), Ronald Reagan (
Reagan), there is no shortage as to what’s on the table for someone in Hollywood to take a stab at. The much-anticipated
Tetris felt like it would be the most significant “technology” biopic of the bench. However, I felt the film to be underwhelming and wildly ambitious (the KGB?) for a movie marketed to be about a universally cherished video game, but it often felt like it was anything except.
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