Film & Television
Film and TV: Overly-reverential Bob Marley biopic strikes the wrong notes
Our film critic John Maguire gives his take on three new releases, Bob Marley: One Love; The Promised Land; and Apple TV series The New Look
Bob Marley: One Love
Young British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir plays reggae legend Bob Marley in One Love, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s reverential biopic of the musician, philosopher, and political activist that is anything but revolutionary.
In the last ten years or so, the Hollywood biographical picture has adapted for the age of Wikipedia, focusing less on delivering a cradle-to-grave reading of a famous individual’s achievements than on finding a central moment in its subject’s life that ...
