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Summary Netflix's drama traces the complex love story of composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children.

Directed By: Bradley Cooper

Written By: Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • R
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • 2 h 9 m
Maestro
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 54 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Netflix's drama traces the complex love story of composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), from the time they met in 1946 at a party and continuing through two engagements, a 25-year marriage, and three children.

Directed By: Bradley Cooper

Written By: Josh Singer, Bradley Cooper

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 54 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 54 Critic Reviews
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100
Dec 6, 2023
We see the work, the figurative (and sometimes literal) sweat that went into crafting these characters. It’s capital-M Movie Acting, and I couldn’t love it more. It moved me.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 22, 2023
Maestro is as ambitious as Cooper’s fine directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” but the new movie is more self-consciously cinematic.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
83
Nov 21, 2023
If the film is a tad baggy and unruly that seems by design and thus less a critique than an accurate assessment. But overall and while painting so boldly on such a broad canvas (the film spans decades and calls on its actors and make-up department to work overtime in delineating the passage of time) Maestro emerges as a bombastic aria of a biopic befitting its central subject.
By Manuel Betancourt FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2023
While plenty of scenes in Maestro have their discrete power—teeming with insight and impressive artistry—it’s only in an appreciation of Mulligan and Cooper’s full-bodied work that the greater whole finds resonance. In them lies the film’s true majesty, its best and most convincing approximation of what it is to love and create and, in so doing, reveal something transcendent.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 2, 2023
There are dazzling, funny, heartbreaking sequences throughout this examination of the music legend and his complicated personal life, but they are undercut by aspects that might have benefited from more attention or deeper thought.
By Alonso Duralde FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 22, 2023
Maestro is a fine portrait of a complicated marriage. But for a man who contained symphonies, that leaves a lot of notes unplayed.
By Jake Coyle FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 21, 2023
Directed by Cooper, who also co-wrote the script with Josh Singer, the film serves up so much Sturm und Drang about the great man’s messed-up private life that it barely bothers to explore his creative genius.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sikelia Productions, Amblin Entertainment, Fred Berner Films, Netflix, Lea Pictures
Release Date Nov 22, 2023
Duration 2 h 9 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81171868/
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Awards

Michigan Movie Critics Guild Awards
• 2 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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