Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody sings when it digs into Queen’s eccentric creative process

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It's the centrifuge around which the rather uneven film whirls, and Malek keeps it going with his sheer will and talent, aided by a parade of legendary Queen hit singles.

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Rock saga is more interesting as an origin story of Queen’s hits than as a Freddie Mercury biopic

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Rami Malek Rises Above Bohemian Rhapsody's Messy Excess

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Before they met Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) had a band nobody cared about. With Mercury they became one of the biggest bands in history. As Queen grows ever larger, Mercury becomes its star, but fame is not always as fun as he’d hoped.

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Big on swaggering spectacle, but far from a killer Queen

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Biopic on flamboyant, unforgettable Queen frontman has its share of flaws — but the star’s take on Freddie Mercury saves the day

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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: Rami Malek Is The Lone High Note In This Sexless, Shallow Biopic

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The later sections of the story, dealing with Mercury’s AIDS diagnosis, are carefully handled, but most of the film is stuffed with lumps of cheesy rock-speak (“We’re just not thinking big enough”; “I won’t compromise my vision”), and gives off the delicious aroma of parody.

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And while Bohemian Rhapsody does succeed in mapping out the most important touchstones of Mercury’s all-too-short life, in much the same way as a Wikipedia entry organizes information functionally rather than artfully, it does so at the expense of many opportunities for depth of feeling.

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Rami Malek does a commanding job of channeling Freddie Mercury's flamboyant rock-god bravura, but Bryan Singer's middle-of-the-road Queen biopic rarely lives up to the authenticity of its lead performance.

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Rami Malek rocks as Freddie Mercury, but 'Bohemian Rhapsody' isn't a killer Queen biopic

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Set aside the trademark buck teeth and mustache, and Malek (Buster's Mal Heart, Papillon) catches the glittering contradictions of Mercury, a hedonist with a huge heart, a preening peacock who endeared himself to the world by being so honest.

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Rami Malek’s impersonation adds a kind of magic to this Queen-produced rock slog with a troubling moralistic subtext

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The long-awaited biopic about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, “Bohemian Rhapsody” has arrived after eight years of development, with changing stars and a director shake-up.

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A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible, with the exception of the prosthetic teeth worn by the lead actor, Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, Queen’s lead singer.

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"Bohemian Rhapsody" is bad in the way a lot of biopics are bad: it's superficial, it avoids complexity, and the narrative has a connect-the-dots quality.

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