Example sentences for: biopic

How can you use “biopic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Given this pattern, it seems appropriate that Man on the Moon , Milos Forman's new biopic about Kaufman, starring Jim Carrey, would take liberties with its subject's life.

  • Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.

  • Lukewarm reviews for El Norte director Gregory Nava's reverential biopic about the slain Tejano singer.

  • It is a conventional celebrity biopic, lionizing its subject at every possible turn, and congratulating itself for its insight.

  • Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.


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