Better Man

"Robbie Williams Is Played by a CGI Monkey in a Wonderfully Bananas Musical Biopic (...) “The Greatest Showman” director Michael Gracey has returned from whatever alien planet he comes from, and he’s brought another electrifyingly demented musical biopic along with him." 

"Gracey paints a fabulously entertaining and touching picture of an insecure, complicated man hauling himself from a quicksand of grasping fans, greedy impresarios, unresolved addictions and father-son dysfunction." 

"l Robbie Williams Biopic Would Be a Snooze, but for the Wild Choice to Depict Him as a Chimp (...) “Better Man” wants to be 'All That Jazz,' but it falls back on the redemptive life-story formula" 

"A Biopic With a Simian Twist and Mixed Results (...) several of the musical sequences are exhilarating, even with a monkey at the microphone. (...) The screenplay is less felicitous." 

"[It] is a thoroughly unique musical biopic centered on British pop star Robbie Williams (...) Robbie Williams isn’t monkeying around" 

"It’s a monumental technical achievement, expressive and haunting" 

"Giddy, imaginative (...) Gracey gets an astonishing amount across in the details (...) Even as the movie captures Williams’ recklessness, it’s also a convincing sketch of his artistic growth and commitment."