Love & Mercy director Bill Pohlad made a bold choice with his Brian Wilson biopic: he cast both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the legendary Beach Boys co-founder at different points in his life.

A 2014 Brian Wilson biopic captured the fragile genius of the Beach Boys icon so powerfully that it’s now considered one of ...

In Bill Pohlad‘s “Love & Mercy,” the mental breakdown of Beach Boys star Brian Wilson is sensitively followed over the the course of decades, featuring a dual performance by Paul Dano and John Cusack ...

“Love & Mercy” director Bill Pohlad is back with another offbeat musician biopic called “Dreamin’ Wild,” which was just acquired by Roadside Pictures (who also released “Love & Mercy”). This time ...

When Brian Wilson sat down for the first time to watch “Love and Mercy,” a biopic about his life, he was swept away by waves of emotion. “I was scared and overwhelmed and proud,” he recalls. Directed ...

In these opening seconds of “Love & Mercy,” we’re jolted out of the usual and must ask ourselves what we’re seeing — a malfunction of some kind or part of the movie? Thus begins a film that defies ...

It's tough to find a genre that gets lambasted more than the biopic. Every announcement of a new movie chronicling the life of a public figure is accompanied by eye rolls and emphatic sighs. But while ...

At first, it seems that something has gone wrong with the film. We see the young Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) talking, and the screen goes blank. In these opening seconds of “Love & Mercy,” we’re jolted ...

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Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I went into Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy knowing absolutely nothing about it — and by nothing, I mean I didn’t even know what it was ...