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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- David “DC” Bolling @ Film Yap
- Excerpt: Maestro can appear as another biopic. Still, it proves Bradley Cooper’s skills as a filmmaker haven’t worn themselves out, especially when he came through on another fantastic performance from him paired with Carey Mulligan to craft an elegant and personal story of a composer and his love.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A biopicture about how the marriage of Leonard and Felicia Bernstein influenced his career.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: excepting Cooper’s willingness to cede the spotlight to his female costar, this is a very different film from “A Star Is Born,” both a biopic of a real person and riskier in its artistic choices, a marriage portrayed as mosaic.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The biopic boasts two admittedly great central performances, but as a compelling, multifaceted portrayal of a complicated genius, it falls short.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Oh, frabjous film! Bradley Cooper’s astonishing high-wire act feels classic and modern at the same time: immersive and impressionistic, breathtakingly bold. A kick in the pants to mainstream cinema.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Mulligan and Cooper are too good for it not to be [enthralling]. Maybe it is all style and little substance, but its dual portrait (albeit shallow) is no less invigorating as a result.
- Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: Cooper and his cinematographer, Matthew Libatique (Don’t Worry Darling), shooting on film, work with black-and-white imagery for the initial decades, then switch to color for later scenes, also moving into widescreen aspect ratios as time passes. Editor Michelle Tesoro (Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit series) cuts the footage together in a manner befitting its beauty, further amplified by the excellent work of production designer Kevin Thompson (Ad Astra) and his team.
- Rene Sanchez @ Cine Sin Fronteras [Spanish]
- Dan Stalcup @
- Excerpt: Maestro is a film assembled like a Lexus, pleasing to look at and comfy to get into and a marvel of machinery. It also has about as much personality as a Lexus.
- [New] | Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: I’m not sure if the title of the new film from Bradley Cooper, Maestro, is supposed to refer to the movie’s subject, legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, or to Cooper himself. Because make no mistake, Bradley Cooper is the definitive maestro in control here, and he wants you to know it.
