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A Complete Unknown

Film Threat
Story by Michael Talbot-Haynes
scrn logline
A Caddyshack-inspired Bob Dylan biopic that's more smoke than substance, leaving critics with a bad aftertaste.
beat sheet
  • Timothée Chalamet shines as an uncannily spot-on young Dylan, but the Caddyshack-inspired story around him falls flat, feeling 'really boring' and missing key elements of the folk legend's rise to fame.
  • Despite being set in the 1960s East Village folk scene, the movie bizarrely features 'no weed' and an excessive amount of cigarette smoking that even a former chain-smoker found 'grossed out' by.
call sheet
Timothée Chalamet, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Sylvie Russo, Johnny Cash, Newport Folk Festival, A Complete Unknown
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