Hard to rate a movie with a great soundtrack less than 9

Rating: 9/10 (22 June 2019)

The music and musical performances are the best feature about this film - hard for anyone who is a musician not to appreciate how well the music performances were placed within the romantic storyline- very well placed and for this, it's an Oscar worthy film.
The thing I didn't like was the melo-drama and the sensationalizing of mental illness depression, suicide and the torrid lives of the talented rich and famous artist. While the song itself I'll Never Love Again is beautiful- the performance of this had an element of pretentious, public posturing for loss. Would have been better if the scene would be L Gaga alone on the piano in her house with flashbacks of how her husband first composed it.
There are other pretentious, overacted, melodramatic scenes but the music performances balances that out.