As far as biopics go, things about popular music artists can be hard to get right We've all seen movies about pop stars that end up in the "behind the music" realm or are rigorously focused on hitting every beat of the artist's story 

But when filmmakers understand them correctly, wellThey just sing With a narrative approach that reflects the musician's own character, a talented performer who throws himself into recreating the music icons of bygone years, and an unusual ability to make famous figures feel fresh and new, these musical biopics are the cream of the crop, and they are all the stuff you need to stream It is available to you

With all the camp and visual talent of Elton John himself, "Rocket Man" tells the story of the legendary pop singer from his humble childhood as Reginald Dwight to the height of his musical success (and all the addiction problems that inevitably accompany such a steep climb) Talon Edgerton has been involved in a performance of his career as Elton John, not only singing his way through the roles (eat your heart out, Rami Malek), but also instilling a sense of vulnerability and despair so that you can easily see how things got out of hand after he tasted fame The choreography and musical arrangements are electric, casting Elton John's greatest hits with an autobiographical lens, offering him insight as both an artist and a person

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For some reason, Aaron Taylor-Johnson ends up being a lot of fancasts for various projects But one person he was able to channel eerily is the young John Lennon from "Nowhere Boy""This happened before the Beatles became the idea, when Lennon was a 10-year—old boy and was raised by an aunt in Liverpool dreaming of becoming a musician one day

This is a musical biopic focused on cultivating a sense of mood and time rather than a strictly chronological exploration of his greatest career highlights Yes, there are still moments when Lennon first meets Paul McCartney (played by Thomas Brody Sunster), but the story of how the Beatles got together is far less than it is a window into the life of a teenage child who one day becomes bigger than Jesus in his own words

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There's only real way to make a film about Elvis Presley, but it's too over・the・top to work, and the cusp of Baz Rahman's portrayal of Elvis's career is maximalist and frenetic, devouring the lead actor Austin Butler It is equipped with a roving camera that makes it easy to operate There's a questionable element to the film (for example, every choice Tom Hanks makes as a colonel near the camera), but nevertheless, many young audiences of Elvis have an image in Elvis's head when he's up the hill and doing an endless Las Vegas residency Maybe - if nothing else, watching this film will help to understand the magnetic hold he has had to fans for generations

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That's not fair, is it? Sometimes, the stupid people you know can be absurdly talented and show off their genius as if they hadn't spent your entire life trying to achieve half of what they could come up with while nursing a staggering hangover, and it doesn't cost them anything It is in a nutshell the story of "Amadeus" and the jealous Salieri (FMurray Abraham), a young, manic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Halse) learned to see all of his greatest dreams accomplished, but was told through the eyes of a mediocre composer Salieri is relegated to a mere footnote role in Mozart's famous career, but Abraham won an Oscar for bringing his jealous saga to life

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Sometimes the most effective biopic strategy is to zero in on moments in a musician's life, rather than trying to tell the story of a musician's entire life That's what the Oscar-nominated Andorra Day starring "America vs Billy Holiday" will do with the iconic singer Set in the 1940s, it was threatened by her overtly pro-civil rights song to cut the song "Strange Fruit" about black men being lynched in the South, from the set list on her show, federal agents effectively eliminated their problems while skirting free speech arguments neatly and instead arrested her on drug charges It will be Day is fiery in the lead role, not only playing Holiday songs calmly, but also capturing the sense of injustice surrounding her career

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Unlike many pop stars who finally got too close to the sun, who destroyed their careers with drug addiction and toxic behavior, the tragedy of Selena is that she is the lead character of the effervescent Tejana star (perhaps her greatest work as an actress), "Selena" is the first time she breaks through the mainstream music industry The Tejano artist

Unfortunately also highlights her tragic demise as she was murdered by Yolanda Saldivar, a close friend and president of the fan club, when she was 23 years old Lopez infuses Selena with vigor and carefree innocence, making her untimely end feel even more devastating to the viewer

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Many musical biopics come too close to the truth, at the expense of the integrity of the film's narrative "Strange" was never to be blamed The Roku Channel originals play fast and loose with the bizarre Al Yankovic (Daniel Radcliffe) story, starting with something relatively close to reality, then veering violently, forcing fans (among other things) to work on the revelation that the bizarre Al met Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) and was responsible for defeating Pablo Escobar Thus, "strange" can be both a biopic that is true to the spirit of its star, and a comedy film that satirizes the entire genre of biopic Daniel Radcliffe may not have been an obvious choice for Weird Al, but it's hard to imagine someone else taking on the role after watching the movie

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