Hawke and Ejogo are both extremely easy on the eye, and share a agreeably warm sexual chemistry. But the movie around them looks a little flat and televisual: too clean, too bright, too period-perfect, too Mad Men.
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Born to Be Blue
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Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
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Ethan Hawke gives one of the best performances of his career in Robert Budreau's Chet Baker non-biopic.
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