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  Review by Vivian ★★★★ 25

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  imagine you’re gay and you’re kinda into this guy and you go to kiss him and he’s like stop m8 I luv ya but not like that and then he goes on to write THE MOST ROMANTIC SONG OF ALL TIME just for you...I’d kill meself

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 35

  ROCKETMAN is so much better than BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY that it’s wild they’re *both* technically considered movies.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★ 20

  The pitch: what if Bohemian Rhapsody was not bad?

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  Review by katie ★★★★ 12

  I think my boyfriend may be in love with either Taron or Elton I couldn't tell, but he sobbed THE ENTIRE FUCKING MOVIE

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  Review by rachel ★★★★½ 13

  bohemian rhapsody found dead

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  Review by karsten ★★★½ 19

  This was just great. I went into it hesitant because ya know...musical biopics. But this was pretty refreshing and did exactly what it needed to do. Wish it went a liiittle further and got a liiittle darker but whatcha gonna do. Elton’s entire downhill spiral was done so well. My mom summed it up pretty well when as soon as we left the theatre she went “Well......fuck Bohemian Rhapsody!”

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  Review by BRAT ★★★½ 20

  rocketman is at its best when embracing its own fantastical ridiculousness, at its worst when mimicking every other music biopic. the saturday night’s alright and honky cat song + dance numbers gave me a very specific elated thrill i hadn’t felt since mamma mia! here we go again. the smash cut of an asshole manager saying “you’ll never be successful!!” to a montage of newspaper headlines touting their success gave me a very specific fatigued apathy i hadn’t felt since bohemian rhapsody.

  it’s frustrating how rocketman is so close to being Great, but ultimately deigns to hover around Good. which is still, by definition, Good! :) i’m not gonna act like i haven’t been constantly blasting the soundtrack, even if it’s partly just so i can briefly listen to richard madden sing!!

  (but can we at least all agree that the casting of bryce dallas howard as elton’s mom was a weird choice? what the HELL was that)

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  Review by andrea🌹 ★★★★ 5

  must a movie be good? is it not enough that taron egerton’s thighs are in every shot, huge?

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  Review by amaya ★★ 27

  @ the film industry,
  freddie mercury... now elton john. i see that lgbt-icon-rockstar-with-peculiar-teeth trend but unless you cast fucking tilda swinton, i will NOT permit a bowie biopic. in fact, i will 100% shoot a bitch

  update: *cocks gun*

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 12

  is it the gay 80s musician cinematic universe or the manager john reid is a snake cinematic universe

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  Review by Zach Gilbert ★★★★½ 47

  There’s a moment in Rocketman that lands such a devastating blow that the film immediately soared to the top of the list of my favorite biopics.

  When Elton finally comes out to his mother, she surprisingly receives the news in a rather calm, indifferent manner, proclaiming that she had already known for years. However, she ends this conversation with the declaration that Elton is “choosing a life of being alone forever,” and therefore will “never be loved properly.”

  I’m not ever going to be a rockstar. Hell, I can’t hold a tune to save my life (despite my considerable time in high school choir, my star did not shine bright). And I’ll never live the life of fame and excess…

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  Review by sree ★★★ 3

  spoiler:
  elton john is a top