Storyline
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
Directors
Cast
Mike Myers, Tom Hollander, Aidan Gillen, Lasco Atkins, Joseph Mazzello, Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Michelle Duncan, Allen Leech, Max Bennett, Lucy Boynton, Ace Bhatti, Ben Hardy, Jess Radomska, Adam Lazarus, Jack Roth, Stefan Kopiecki, Aaron McCusker, Peter Vo, Johanna Thea, Dickie Beau, Meneka Das, Priya Blackburn, Dermot Murphy, Neil Fox-Roberts, Philip Andrew, Adam Rauf, Matthew Houston, Scott Morrison Watson, Devlin Lloyd, Garry Summers, Matthew Fredricks, Pat Lally, Ian Jareth Williamson
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Reviews
80
Appropriately for a group known for its theatrical, crowd-pleasing tunes, this authorised-by-the-band biopic carries itself lightly, serving up familiar plot points with panache and a sense of humour, while at the same time investing in the story’s emotional through-line, building to a genuinely moving climax.
70
To the filmmakers' credit, and even though they don't entirely avoid the clunky factoid-itis that often plagues the genre, this is a biopic that favors sensory experience over exposition. It understands what pure, electrifying fun rock 'n' roll can be.
61
As an inducement to dig into the Queen back catalog, Bohemian Rhapsody is an unqualified success. But when it tries to be a genuine biopic of a groundbreaking band and its singular lead singer, it’s more like a little silhouette-o of a man.
60
Empire
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.
60
A lively, uncomplicated jukebox movie. Bohemian Rhapsody is a feature-length earworm that leaves “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “We Are the Champions,” “Another One Bites the Dust” and the rest of them wriggling in your cochlea and helping to drown out any inner whisper suggesting that you’ve just had the wool pulled over your eyes by these masters of rock theatrics.
