Control is a bio-pic about Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the seminal British post-punk band Joy Division. I recommend it highly to those interested in the world of British post-punk music, gorgeous black-and-white photography, excellence in acting.  I also recommend it to students of the bio-pic genre. 

Many reviewers more qualified than myself have made the case for this movie, so I will keep this brief, but there were a few things of which I'd like to take special note.

Biographical drama is hard. The writer is faced with a number of problems -- either the audience knows too much about the protagonist, which means they're way ahead of the narrative, or else the audience doesn't know enough about the protagonist, which means the movie has to contain all kinds of tiresome exposition to explain who everyone is and why they're important to the story.