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    'Rocketman' review: Elton John, the biopic — better (by far) than last year's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune May 31, 2019 2 minutes

    "Rocketman" is more like it. In relation to last year's jolly mediocrity "Bohemian Rhapsody," which stumbled across the surface of Queen front-man Freddie Mercury's life and music, the new Elton John biopic arrives with a similar load of biopic cliches and set-ups. Yet it moves with confidence; it's vivid; it pulls off a riskier, full-on musical fantasy version

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