Top 10 Movies: Biopics
The highest-graded biopic movies we have reviewed, best first.
GoodfellasScorsese's most propulsive picture, a mob life sold as intoxication and then billed in full.Read the review
The Wolf of Wall StreetThree hours of pure appetite, staged as comedy and edited like an amphetamine.
Schindler's ListSpielberg strips away every trick he owns and lets the ledger, the faces and the ash do the work.
Raging BullScorsese's hardest film, and the rare boxing picture with no interest in whether you like the fighter.
The Passion of Joan of ArcDreyer films a heresy trial almost entirely in close-up, and Falconetti's face under interrogation is the most harrowing performance of the silent era.
OppenheimerA three-hour talking picture that detonates; Nolan's densest and most haunted film.
HamiltonA near ideal record of a stage phenomenon, the original Broadway cast at full strength, filmed with more intelligence than most stage captures.
LincolnA procedural about counting votes turns out to be the most alive thing anyone has put on screen about Lincoln, right up until it refuses to end.
MoneyballFront-office arguments filmed like heists, and an ending that refuses the trophy on principle.
DangalA wrestling biopic that sells every bout and lets Aamir Khan's father stay difficult, even after the script starts cheering him on.
