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Film Review — Better Man

Film Review — Better Man

Michael Gracey’s audacious musical biopic features Robbie Williams portrayed as a chimpanzee

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Dec 28, 2024
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Connoisseurs of genre definition pedantry such as yours truly have fun with films like Better Man, pointing out with nit-picking satisfaction that it falls under the definition of “musical biopic” rather than “biopic about a musician”. Like Rocketman (2019), this unusual take on Robbie Williams’s story fe…

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