Bohemian Rhapsody
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: November 2, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
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17
Mixed:
23
Negative:
10
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38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 23, 2018
"Rhapsody” has a shallow script, oversize performances and looks like it was shot in a sauna. Read full review
33
The PlaylistKimber MyersOct 23, 2018
Despite its intentions to get close to Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody is as intimate as a sold-out stadium show, with none of the accompanying power. Read full review
33
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 23, 2018
The critical failure of Bohemian Rhapsody is that, 134 minutes after the lights go down, the members of Queen just seem like four blokes who’ve been processed through the rusty machinery of a Hollywood biopic. Read full review
30
Vanity FairK. Austin CollinsDec 16, 2018
Bohemian Rhapsody’s problems aren’t specific to this movie. They are the bane of biopics broadly speaking, especially those tackling artists. I want to leave this kind of movie with a sense of the artist’s art, not just of the headlined subsections of a Wikipedia summary. Read full review
30
The AtlanticDavid SimsNov 1, 2018
In short, Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t just prone to music-biopic clichés—it’s practically a monument to them, a greatest-hits collection of every narrative shortcut one can possibly take in summarizing a legendary act’s rise to fame. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 30, 2018
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. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 1, 2018
The only redeeming value of Bohemian Rhapsody is it’s so bad, there’s plenty of room left for a much better biopic about the one and only Freddie Mercury. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Carly LewisNov 1, 2018
For a film insistent upon getting the dramaturgically correct 1985 Pepsi logo into the frame, very little effort seems to have been applied to exactitude elsewhere. Freddie Mercury deserves better. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOct 30, 2018
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. This kind of badness, while annoying, is relatively benign. However, the attitude towards Mercury's sexual expression is the opposite of benign. Read full review
25
ConsequenceBlake GobleOct 25, 2018
Bohemian Rhapsody is another lame music biopic, and its failures ultimately lie in the poor creative choices, the gutless approaches to potentially explosive events in the life of this band. We’re not buying this new album. There’s no new material to be found in Bohemian Rhapsody. Read full review
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