Timothée Chalametis electrifying as Bob Dylan

You don’t have to be a superfan or a folkie to get thoroughly engrossed in this richly detailed biopic from James Mangold, in which Timothée Chalamet uncannily recreates the young Bob Dylan.

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This is an extraordinary performance, far deeper than an impersonation, that charts the progress of the singer-songwriter, the music scene he entered and altered, and events in the wider world during times that were urgently a-changin’.

He starts off a tousle-headed Minnesota neophyte, pitching up at the acoustic nights of New York in 1961 to pay tribute to his dying hero, protest singer Woody Guthrie. By the end he’s the oddball, birdlike, black-plumaged messenger of change who outrages the 1965 Newport Folk Festival by playing electric versions of Maggie’s Farm and Like a Rolling Stone.