The best music movie of 2025 has finally hit home streaming in 4K, Dolby Vision and Atmos

A movie still of a silhouetted guitar player on stage

(Image credit: Disney+; Searchlight Pictures)

One of the best-selling musicians of all time hasn't fared too badly at the box office this year either, his biopic having grossed $140m worldwide, putting it at No. 7 on Billboard‘s list of highest-grossing music biopics.

Of course, we're talking about Bob Dylan and A Complete Unknown, with the American singer-songwriter played by Timothée Chalamet in the new fictionalised account by co-writer and director James Mangold.

A Complete Unknown received eight 2025 Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was praised far and wide for its focused narrative snapshot of his rise to stardom between 1961 and his controversial electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, not to mention Chalamet's committed performance as the enigmatic musician and the many compelling music scenes.

That's a real boon for those with 4K, HDR and/or Atmos-savvy TV and sound systems, as the movie's mise en scène perfectly captures the grittiness of New York in the early '60s, while the on-stage performances by Chamalet (and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash) are wonderfully recorded and mixed, both in those intimate bar settings and the more interactive, big-crowd festival environments.

Becky is a hi-fi, AV and technology journalist, formerly the Managing Editor at What Hi-Fi? and Editor of Australian Hi-Fi and Audio Esoterica magazines. With over twelve years of journalism experience in the hi-fi industry, she has reviewed all manner of audio gear, from budget amplifiers to high-end speakers, and particularly specialises in headphones and head-fi devices.

In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake.

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