“Maestro” (** out of four) was a curiously flat biography about legendary film composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his lifelong relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan) throughout the years. Star Cooper also directed with lots of reverence but he fails to involve you in Bernstein or make you care much about his character- or thus the movie. Final scenes work the best but film on a whole is pretty aloof and unmoving. Many critics thought this was extraordinary but I’m not among them.

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