Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Rocketman is more in the form of a jukebox musical than straightforward biopic, using the catalog to build a story around the subject rather than exploring the subject through the songs.
- Caio Bogoni @ Cine Grandiose [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: While similar to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Rocketman” treads more carefully not to commit the same mistakes.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: uses John and Taupin’s songs to dramatize various important stages of his life, usually ending in a completely different time and space where they begin. The effect is dazzling…a heady rush of entertainment with an emotional undertow.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Too frantic in its pacing to make the impact that the filmmakers clearly desired, but it’s an often stunning film with a terrific central performance from Taron Egerton.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This is not a biography. It’s a fantasy that utilizes his songs to create an experience.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Joyful and rowdy, self-deprecating and vulnerable, absolutely electrifying as it deconstructs the sex-drugs-and-rock’n’-roll story. Taron Egerton is chills-inducingly good. Sheer cinematic magic.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: 30 years of Elton John’s ups and downs is middling material, but a few things catapult the product to fascinating – Taron Egerton’s virtuoso performance, the soaring anthems, and one perfect scene.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Excerpt: You can tell everybody… that Elton John’s musical biopic Rocketman is actually pretty good.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The filmmakers seek to delve deeper than appearances to really highlight the existential struggle behind [their subject’s] choices. This isn’t our perception of Elton John’s life. It’s his.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: While the chronological progression still holds Rocketman on a familiar narrative path, the film’s ambition concerning the incorporation of fantastical musical sequences makes it a memorable and engaging watch.
- frank ochieng @ rec.arts.movies.reviews
- Excerpt: Thoroughly eye-popping, sprawling with vibrancy and vision, and spryly contemplative, ROCKETMAN is a virtual blast into the effervescent orbit of the meaningful musical biopic.
- [New] | João Pinto @ Portal CInema [Portuguese]
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