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Rocketman

2019

Dexter Fletcher

Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard ...

6.6

18,833

Musical. Drama A biographical musical film based on the life of musician star Elton John.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Call it Elton John’s 'Bohemian Rhapsody', with more sex, more drugs and a killer performance from Taron Egerton(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Let’s be honest: Whatever compelled Reginald Dwight to become Elton John was probably a lot more complicated than simply not getting enough hugs from his father (...) as the film implies."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The point of 'Rocketman' isn't self-aggrandizement. It's fan service of an especially and characteristically generous kind"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's largely to the credit of star Taron Egerton (...) that the movie remains airborne (...) [It] commits wholeheartedly to its flashy eccentricity, and for many, that will be more than fun enough."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An honest, heartfelt tribute to Elton John’s music and his public image. But the man itself eluded it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Bohemian Rhapsody,’ with more sex, more drugs and a killer performance from Taron Egerton (...) Rating: ★★★★ (ouf of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A heart-racing, toe-tapping, deliriously entertaining triumph (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[It] is so energetic that it’s possible to be swept away by its enthusiasm for putting Reg on a pedestal. Too often, though, the film just flattens you, demanding fealty to Sir Elton.	NEU
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"[It] gets right far more than it gets wrong. There’s no sugar-coating of the drug and booze abuse, but it doesn’t lean in too hard on the cinematic clichés of white lines and endless empties either (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Its depiction of rock 'n' roll debauchery still falls within a range of perfunctory, somewhat sanitized gestures (...) What you may not always anticipate is the wit and imagination of the staging"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"A rousing and emotional affair with an operatic sweep (...) Fletcher films even the darkest scenes in a very flamboyant fashion and manages to leaven matters with some ironic humour (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"It’s all grand and fun and corny, a musical fantasy that reaches for the sky and gets there often enough to make it diverting but also frustrating."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"It finds strength in texture, beauty in sadness, and an inspired finale in a crackpot arrangement of one of the singer's greatest hits (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"It’s when dissecting [his] relationships that the film works best"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"It doesn’t always make sense, but the choreography is strong enough to distract from the musical non sequiturs (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Extraordinarily good, and gives us Elton John in his magnificent prime (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"Groundbreaking. A wonder of a movie (...) It really captures the humanity and touching nature of Elton’s music (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Alan Corr RTÉ	"[Fletcher] has upended the tired conventions of the music biopic and made a freewheeling musical fantasy that has a streak of madness at its heart (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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