For Freaks & Geeks' James Franco, James Dean is a major breakthrough. He not only looks like him, but his mannerisms and his whole persona are startlingly real. This movie rests on his thin, hunched shoulders, and he carries it off.

| Original Score: A- | May 11, 2020

James Dean is an unusually intelligent job that benefits from the relative modesty of its production and straightforward direction.

| May 11, 2020

The movie itself is rarely adventurous, but it could prompt viewers to watch the actual Dean performances again. Credit for that would go mainly to Franco, who excels at playing this odd, conflicted figure.

| May 11, 2020

James Franco is so Deansian, it's scary. The life story of the rebel without a cause has been shaped by fact and presumption into a startlingly enthralling drama.

| May 11, 2020

Franco's metamorphosis into Dean ranks as one of the great 온라인카지노추천 performances of the year. And it would have been enough to earn James Dean a rave, but it's only one of several performances that set this movie apart.

| May 11, 2020

Sick of movie-star biopics? Then there's little to change your mind in this one... It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob.

| May 11, 2020

Franco could have walked through the role and done a passable Dean, but instead gets under the skin of this insecure, rootless young man.

| May 11, 2020

Re-creates Dean's life and times with what might be called stunning adequacy... Franco's performance is easily the best thing in the movie, conveying Dean's essence and angst without ever becoming a mere impersonation.

| May 11, 2020

There's no joy in noting that it sometimes plays like a parody of a James Dean movie.

| May 11, 2020

Sure, you get the rebellious side of the man... All the legendary stuff. But you also get a morose portrait of a man twisted and torn, self-destructive but fiercely vulnerable. Any fan should catch this flick.

| May 11, 2020

As a biopic, James Dean is a laudable contribution to the genre, though lapses into 온라인카지노추천 movie-of-the-week conventions take the edge off what could have been a wholly compelling movie.

| May 11, 2020

Even those of us who suspected that Franco had a great performance in him couldn't have imagined it would be this great... In his spectacular, heartfelt performance, Franco walks Dean's walk and feels his pain.

| May 11, 2020

It's a hushed project that finds its grandeur in the cinematic approach from director of photography Robbie Greenberg, who gives pic the look of a bigscreen rather than a television project.

| Mar 3, 2019

... a well-done docudrama starring James Franco from Freaks and Geeks...

| Feb 5, 2018

...entertaining, in a movie-of-the-week sort of way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2003