The first two movies directed by Bradley Cooper revealed a couple of key things about him. The most essential is that he’s a born filmmaker — not just a good one but a great one. The other thing they revealed is that Bradley Cooper, for all his searching intelligence and humanity, is a consummate creature of showbiz. His entrancing 2018 remake of “A Star Is Born” was steeped in the entertainment industry (arena rock, dance-pop videos, the Grammys), and part of the film’s power lay in the granular authenticity with which it portrayed those worlds. As for “Maestro,” Cooper’s haunting Leonard Bernstein biopic, it told the story of a classical musician who was baptized in the limelight; that he had to keep his private life offstage only threw the luminous sheen of his celebrity into high

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