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‘Midas Man’ Review: Brian Epstein, the Manager of the Beatles, Gets a Biopic That’s TV-Movie Basic, With a Few Affecting Moments
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd plays Epstein and shows us his business genius, and the torment of his gay life. But even the dark side is a bit too on-the-nose.
You almost surely know that it was Epstein who made over the Beatles’ image, taking four scruffy working-class rockers in black leather jackets, dressing them in collarless gray suits and giving them those fabled moptop haircuts — the look that launched a thousand screams. If you’ve ever seen footage of Brian Epstein, you also know the most resonant and, in a way, the most fascinating thing about him: that he was a straightarrow British gentleman with a rock-steady gaze and a low-key charm, who spoke in a voice of silken aristocratic polish (the product of years of private school). The film’s star, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, is an appealing actor (best known for his work on “The Queen’s Gambit”) who dramatizes the crispness of Brian’s intelligence, and how his passion for the Beatles was a response to their magic that he converted into a kind of equation — about how those girls in the packed crowd at the Cavern Club could be leveled up to global scale.
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