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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 27 May 2019

The film owes its success less to shock value than to sheer cinematic inventiveness and Egerton’s total immersion in the role…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 May 2019

The point of Rocketman isn’t self-aggrandizement. It’s fan service of an especially and characteristically generous kind…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 27 May 2019

John’s gifts are his songs, and with Rocketman, his wonderful life gets a worthy, refreshing big-screen treatment…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 27 May 2019

It is a tried-and-true jukebox musical fantasia, seemingly prepackaged for the Broadway stage, packed with toe-tapping sing-alongs you’ve…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 May 2019

Though the film contains renditions of many of the big hits, they’re so badly performed you’d have every right to wonder what the fuss…

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By Simon Thompson (92) for IGN (1,013) on 23 May 2019

Rocketman is an unforgettable, emotional experience that raises the bar for biopics…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 May 2019

Egerton’s whole-body commitment captures not just Elton’s outrageous physicality — in costume designer Julian Day’s hands, he’s essentially…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 23 May 2019

The sheer brute force of Egerton holds it all together. And despite some darker themes, Rocketman is still quite a ride…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 23 May 2019

Egerton tears into the material with an intensity that elevates Rocketman’s standard-issue tortured-artist drama…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 May 2019

Elton John deserves a movie operating on a much grander scale than a standard, paint-by-numbers showbiz biopic, and Rocketman is a suitably…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 May 2019

Freddie Mercury may have had the better voice, but it’s Elton John who gets the better movie…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 May 2019

What makes Rocketman a gift of entertainment that keeps on giving is the brilliance of the musical numbers coupled with the complexity of the…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 20 May 2019

Rocketman is happiest with its feet far off the ground in a dreamy pop splendor, with headlights all along the highway…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 20 May 2019

It’s absolutely exploding with energy because Elton John is its pulse…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 May 2019

As a musical, Dexter Fletcher’s film is just fun enough to (mostly) distract us from its superficiality…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 May 2019

As tedious as Rocketman is when it’s going through the biographical motions, it’s equally delightful when it launches into something most…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 17 May 2019

Rocketman is magnificent and ridiculous, a feathered melanage of clichés and originality, of respectful homage and unrepentant nostalgia…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 16 May 2019

A sequin-encrusted delight…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 May 2019

As with its beloved subject and his enormous catalog of multiplatinum earworms, the movie’s familiarity turns out to be crucial to its charm…

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By Caroline Tsai (12) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2019

Fletcher’s inventive reimagining of several musical numbers, in particular, blends striking visuals and affecting storytelling…

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