A Complete Unknown

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Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN's (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts -- his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation -- culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Critics Consensus

Charged by Timothée Chalamet's electric performance, this ballad of Bob Dylan might not get under the enigmatic artist's skin but will make you feel like you've spent time in his company.

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Leigh Singer

Sight & Sound

Nov 11, 2025

This film struggles to balance the conventional notes of a music biopic with the singer’s shapeshifting artistry.

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Wenlei Ma

The Nightly (AU)

Feb 19, 2025

3.5/5

Timothee Chalamet gives a fully committed performance that manages to capture the interiority of Bob Dylan – his talent, his prickliness, his distance from people, and his quiet ambition.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Feb 11, 2025

The people who made this movie plainly love Bob Dylan, but they allow the Bob Dylan who comes through to be who Bob Dylan is: insecure, overly confident -- all kinds of things.

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Luke Goodsell

The Saturday Paper

Jul 23, 2026

Maybe a conventional biopic is the ultimate unpredictable Dylan bit, a misdirection home that reveals little but enshrines the myth. No wonder he endorsed it.

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Nicolás Medina

Peliplat

Dec 4, 2025

5/10

"In short, although visually accomplished, the film lacks the boldness necessary to capture the complexity of its subject." [Full review in Spanish]

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Asia Frey

Lagniappe (Mobile, AL)

Sep 27, 2025

B

It was a tiny bit corny, but any period biopic like this is going to feel a bit like “Forrest Gump.” You play spot-the-famous-person and judge their resemblance to their real-life counterpart, and they parade through real historical events.

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Synopsis

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN's (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts -- his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation -- culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Director: James Mangold
Producer: Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold
Screenwriter: James Mangold, Jay Cocks
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Production Co: Searchlight Pictures, The Picture Company, Veritas Entertainment Group, Turnpike Films, Automatik Entertainment
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 2024, Wide

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