‘rocketman’ Review: A Better Biopic Than ‘bohemian Rhapsody’

Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post: Movies
Wed, 05/22/2019 - 8:07pm

Freddie Mercury may have had the better voice, but it’s Elton John who gets the better movie. “Rocketman,” director Dexter Fletcher’s trippy new biopic about the flamboyant rocker is braver, deeper and more enlightening than last year’s slobbering piece of Queen propaganda “Bohemian Rhapsody” (which he also partly directed). If I was Elton John, I...

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