“A Complete Unknown” Review

What helps James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown not feel like a standard musical bio-pic is that it never tries to be all-encompassing. In a year with such sprawling musician biographies about Pharrell Williams and Robbie Williams, this picture of Bob Dylan feels more introspective for being so contained. It doesn’t try to pack his entire life into a 2-hour box but instead explores the road to his controversial performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. In this sense, the film isn’t so much a...