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Bohemian Rhapsody

2018

Bryan Singer

Rami Malek, Joseph Mazzello, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee ...

7.2

51,394

Drama This is the story of how Freddie Mercury and his fellow band members Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon formed Queen - one of the most iconic rock groups of all time. The film follows Queen as they produce hit after hit, topping the charts while constantly evolving their sound. Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of the band, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"A big, splashy, half-true biopic in the Hollywood style (...) and inspiring almost in spite of itself. (...) In the stage scenes, Malek makes you believe he's Freddie Mercury. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"So with a performance as commanding as Malek’s at its center, why isn’t 'Bohemian Rhapsody' a better movie? (...) Despite its electrifying subject, is a conventional biopic, a movie that skitters through events instead of sinking into them."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Biopic on flamboyant, unforgettable Queen frontman has its share of flaws — but the star’s take on Freddie Mercury saves the day (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"[It] is not the Freddie Mercury biopic we deserve (...) 'Rhapsody' has a shallow script, oversize performances and looks like it was shot in a sauna (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"The finished product is energetic (...) its affection for Mercury and Queen indisputable even when the drama is undernourished (...) Freddie Mercury [is] played with magnetism and breathtaking physicality by Rami Malek."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It feels interminable (...) The film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible (...) The reality was perhaps more interesting, and more nuanced"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Other than a solid job by Malek, a few exciting musical sequences (...) the movie is just a conventional rock flick, one all too ordinary for a man and a band that exemplified the extraordinary (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Kimber Myers The Playlist	"This jumbled take on the legend is squawky, sexless, and shallow (...) Where the script and the direction really fails Mercury’s memory is in only devoting a brief postscript to the final six years of the musician’s life (...) Both Mercury and Malek deserve better than this."
		Olly Richards Empire	"A safe, competent, decidedly non-scandalous biopic (...) Like Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is three parts good but not terribly exciting, and one part absolute joyful, fabulous entertainment that makes you forget everything else around it (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Steve Rose The Guardian	"Malek’s impersonation adds a kind of magic to this Queen-produced rock slog with a troubling moralistic subtext (...) 'Rhapsody' honours Mercury the showman but never really gets to Mercury the person (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Rami Malek does a convincing job (...) but that isn't enough to save this feature-length Queen ad (...) Terrible and self-indulgent piece of revisionist history, where the legend is always prioritized over the truth"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A compulsively watchable Queen band biopic (...) dominated by Rami Malek’s magnetic, frisky and unexpectedly poignant performance"
		Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Don’t expect anything more than a safe gloss over the Queen story (...) A lively, uncomplicated jukebox movie (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"An object example of how a film can be entertaining and even exhilarating without being particularly good (...) As a biopic (...) the movie frequently falls short, but it does provide interesting origin stories for many of the hits created by Mercury’s band Queen."
		Jim Vejvoda IGN	"'Bohemian Rhapsody' is fun but entirely superficial (...) It ultimately relies on the magnetism of Rami Malek’s portrayal of Freddie Mercury and Queen’s bombastic, beloved music to make up for its narrative shortcomings"
		Matt Singer Screen Crush	"Singer never gets beyond the superficial to tell us anything profound or meaningful about Queen or Freddie Mercury or the perils of rock stardom."

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