The modern biopic as propaganda

ALSO: Arrested Development at 20. Still relevant. AND: The Bear renewed for season 3.

The best read of today is Vince Mancini at The Ringer on the changing nature of the biopic. Mancini considers their shift from what was generally a pretty well-worn, over-used format of following a person’s life from their earliest years through to their death (see: Citizen Kane through to Walk Hard), but now serve largely as propaganda with the story o…