And in my endeavor to watch every movie...

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2017)

...that I missed over an 18-year period, I am in 2014 and have finally seen "Love & Mercy" and wishing that I had started from 2016 and gone back because this is one helluva find.
I don't do reviews. I don't do reviews because I am an amateur movie-watcher. But when I come across a gem like this I just want to say "Damn. That was one good movie." Oh, Elizabeth Banks. I guess that this was the first time that I had ever seen her in anything. I couldn't help but think that I HAD seen her before... but I was thinking of Elisabeth Shue in "Leaving Las Vegas." I will be looking at some of her films and TV appearances, now. Banks, Dano and Cusack are just brilliant - but a special nod has to go to Dano: he's the sun and everyone else is a planet - brilliant planets.
And that's what I have to say about "Love & Mercy." For various reasons I've kept up with Brian Wilson's career as he returned to making astounding music and going from "Love You" ("The Beach Boys Love You:?) to "Brian Wilson." Is he a music genius? Probably -- If I were to meet him, I wouldn't tell him, though. I've never heard of anyone else write of Wilson as an influence on Steely Dan, but I hear it. I'm an admirer, a fan, and I see this as one of the finest biopics ever made... I know that it was Wilson-approved but I know, too, that the movie depicted Wilson's mental health problems realistically: watch some of the movements that Cusack/Wilson makes with his arms and there are the audio hallucinations, of course.
A damned good movie. I'm not sure how I missed it. So glad that I saw it, though.