I never heard of this film; "Love and Mercy"
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3. Love & Mercy
How do you make a biopic about the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, a pop genius with such a fragile personality that he often had trouble putting a sentence together? Bill Pohlad’s brilliant, moving drama dives deep into Wilson’s instability, portraying him as an angelic basket case who heard voices the same way he heard melodies: as a message from the beyond. Paul Dano, in the greatest performance by an actor this year, nails every tic and nuance of the young Brian’s stuttering radiance. And as Wilson the middle-aged has-been, chained to an exploitative therapist (Paul Giamatti), John Cusack – though he doesn't much look like the former Beach Boy—gives his most emotionally eloquent performance since Say Anything."
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