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Sure Ray and Walk The Line were commercial hits, and both earned their actors a string of awards and nominations, but here’s the deal: On the way is a timely spoof of those kinds of melodramatic, aggrandizing biopics called Walk Hard, and Bob Dylan is not one who enjoys being part of a trend or the butt of a joke (unless it involves chilling in a Victoria’s Secret commercial with Adriana Lima). For a performer who has parried and sparred with the media and his fans for more than 40 years, broadcasting half-truths and gleefully spinning his image on its axis, something cut and dry like Ray just wouldn’t do justice to the man or the myth. He’s been a folk revivalist, a protestor, a rock star, a recluse, an actor, evangelist and enigma. Who is Bob Dylan, really? According to I’m Not There writer/director Todd Haynes, Dylan is alternately Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw and Marcus Carl Franklin, in a narrative as impressionistic and idiosyncratic as Dylan’s sublime discography. I’m Not There opens Nov. 21.

ALSO IN NOVEMBER: American Gangster (11/2), Bee Movie (11/2), No Country for Old Men (11/9), and Lions for Lambs (11/9).