36-Word Review of “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”

He writes the songs of love/ And special things

A deeply appropriate parody of all music biopics, with sly commentaries on based-on-a-true-story anachronisms, falsehoods twinned with factual distortions and even white appropriation of Black music. This film solidifies Daniel Radcliffe as a rising comic genius.

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