The film works its way through plenty of expected biopic beats, but Mangold's epiphany is that he doesn't need to come up with a set of hackneyed explanations for why Dylan is the way he is.
Instead of treating him like a protagonist, A Complete Unknown approaches the musician like a force. Its best sequences aren't about Dylan so much as they are about what it was like to be in his orbit.
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