When you see a Benji in real life, you may think he’s an asshole. But now you’ll realize that maybe he is, but he’s also a person. 

Mangold fulfills a biopic’s basic promise. Shut up and play the hits. Whether those hits are Gandhi’s hunger strike or Patton slapping a soldier. People want to hear Bob Dylan play Blowin’ in the Wind, Like a Rolling Stone, and Subterranean Homesick Blues.

But would Dylan do that?