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June 24, 2022
At the Movies: Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann deliver a grand ‘Elvis'
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
Austin Butler fearlessly embodies the icon without ever slipping into impersonation.
The brief life of Elvis Presley is not something that fits neatly into a conventional biopic formula, though many have tried. It was, perhaps, always going to take a director as wild and visionary as Baz Luhrmann to do something that evokes the essence of the King's 42 years.
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