Rocketman

Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark 'Rocketman'

It's almost unfair that "Rocketman," a new movie about the rise, fall and rise of Elton John, is being released just months after the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody." The echoes and overlaps are inescapable: The films cover roughly the same time period, they feature the same villainous manager who seduces and abandons both heroes, and they were even directed by the same filmmaker - which makes comparison just as inevitable. Does "Rocketman" deliver the same frisson as "Bo Rhap," which overcame scrambled chronology and genre cliches to become one of the most pleasurable movies of 2018? Yes and no. [...]

di Ann Hornaday, articolo completo (5312 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Washington Post 30 maggio 2019