Behind the camera for the second time after netting a pile of Oscar nods for 2018’s A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper directs himself as Leonard Bernstein, wearing a controversial prosthetic nose and cultivating significant chemistry with Carey Mulligan, playing Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre. Where A Star is Born established Cooper as a Serious Filmmaker, Maestro finds him taking big swings in an attempt to be a True Artist – and regardless of whether his gambit works or not, we should be grateful that he isn’t content to deliver yet another bland biopic.