The screenplay...can be too on the nose, particularly in its handling of historical context...Overall, however, the filmmakers steer clear of the usual musical biopic hagiography by taking a deliberate and bracing distance from their subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2025

The Newport climax threatens to be a bit of a letdown, until the performances start. The opening piano chords to "Like A Rolling Stone" still give you chills 60 years after they first dropped. And the look of betrayal on those beatniks' faces...beautiful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2025

The picture, with its protagonist who did not want to fit the typical music star image, carries us along on a journey of ups and downs, always emphasizing the power of music.

| Apr 5, 2025

Unfortunately, while the film has elements to explore far beyond the obvious,...it only accomplishes what is necessary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 24, 2025

Mangold develops a very straight laced portrait of the artist as a young man in this biopic on Bob Dylan's early days, but Chalamet, who is flanked by charming co-stars Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro, channels the restless, contrarian energies of...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

French actor Thimothee Chalamet skillfully slips into the shoes of the genius, transmitting Dylan’s spirit in his twenties and conveying not only his elusive personality but also his enigmatic charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2025

The whole formation of the film is impeccable, but I think that putting all of the meat on the grill in terms of form makes us really lose a depth in A Complete Unknown. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 18, 2025

A near perfect biopic. The screenplay gives a great insight into the early career of Bob Dylan and doesn't overlook the darker aspects. Timothee Chalamet is brilliant as Dylan while Boyd Holbrook almost steals the show as Johnny Cash.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 14, 2025

Ultimately, the film is as reverent as it is frustrating. It celebrates Dylan’s artistry but struggles to illuminate the man behind the myth.

| Mar 4, 2025

Chalamet’s performance is a success, a real feat of acting in which he thoroughly inhabits Dylan-ness without slipping into parody

| Mar 4, 2025

The music is terrific, Chalamet is fantastic but there is no insight into Bob Dylan. I know nothing about Bob Dylan. It’s like reading Dylan’s Wikipedia page. Why did he hate being idolized? What happened with Baez?

| Mar 4, 2025

Mangold opts for the simple option, which is a linear narrative that leaves little room for surprise. However, the story is perfectly enjoyable with a recreation of Greenwich Village...and some very good musical performances. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2025

[A Complete Unknown] is not just another biography: it is an example to follow, a character study, a model for those who come after. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2025

...what truly remains in the stylistic exercise that is Mangold's film is the perfect depiction and revival of [Bob Dylan]... A perfect and beautiful simulation, but a simulation nonetheless. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2025

Although A Complete Unknown is sometimes as frustratingly opaque as Dylan about his motivations or politics, the film vividly captures his musical evolution.

| Feb 28, 2025

Everything feels believable and is very well told. The setting, the dialogue, the situations, the characters all work. And a perfect performance, inside and out, by Timothée Chalamet... [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 28, 2025

A Complete Unknown is very well-made, but it never goes all the way to explore its subjects, and so it remains a shallow character study, something that happens very often with biopics when the subject in question is still alive.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

What saves A Complete Unknown from being too formulaic and conventional a biopic (and about Dylan, at that) is Mangold's direction, surprisingly refined and intelligent, perhaps his best work behind the camera to date. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 28, 2025

James Mangold just knows how to make a sturdy movie for adults.

| Feb 28, 2025

Electrifying (pun intended) [...] despite a few glitches in its finely threaded matrix, mostly in places where it tries too hard to be Dylanesque.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025