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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 41 Critic Reviews
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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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Generally Favorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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15% Mixed
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100
Nov 20, 2023
Maestro exposes a truth about marriage that I always knew but could never quite articulate: To be truly known and understood can actually be scary.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 2, 2023
Maestro is every bit Felicia’s story as it is Bernstein’s, and all the better for it. Through her, we see how convivial, how magnetic, how cold he could be.
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83
Oct 6, 2023
This is not a movie made for second-screen viewing; anyone glimpsing at their phone for even a moment may miss a key character moment or plot detail that is conveyed visually. It will be best to see in a theater during whatever release window Netflix provides — but even when viewed at home, Maestro deserves the same level of respect from viewers as one of Bernstein's public performances of the music of Mahler.
By Christian Holub FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2023
An accomplished and classy follow-up to A Star is Born then, and one that proves Cooper is more than a one-hit wonder. But as an examination of artistic temperament, sexual voracity, and the patient women who love conductors, Maestro’s thunder has been stolen to a degree by Tár.
By Jane Crowther FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 22, 2023
Cooper’s sophomore film far outshines the common run of contemporary biopics in its artful construction and attention to emotional nuance.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 2, 2023
As a study of how the Bernsteins’ near-three-decade marriage endured Lenny’s gayness and genius, Maestro succeeds off the chemistry between Mulligan and Cooper, but the film often looks and feels too fussed-over, almost too precisely manicured, to ever erase its own parameters as a linear biopic.
By Ryan Lattanzio 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, Joint Effort, Netflix
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

Venice Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Middleburg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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