<em>Rocketman</em> Deserves to Be a Smash Hit
The new film about the life of Elton John thrives on the otherworldly qualities of pop that staid biopics often refuse to indulge.
It’s inevitable that will draw comparisons to, last year’s smash-hit biopic in the form of a jukebox musical. Both are about hyper-popular rock acts who reigned supreme in the 1970s and ’80s; both are focused on effervescent showmen who spent many years in the closet, and both were—in a manner of speaking—directed by Dexter Fletcher. The direction of was, of course, credited to Bryan Singer, but Fletcher was the that project after Singer was midway through filming. gives us a chance to see what Fletcher
