Michael Gracey’s film about the British pop star is one of unlikely excellence — and animal magic
A little over a year ago, Netflix released Robbie Williams, a four-part documentary in which the British pop star discussed addiction and his career. The mood was pointedly frank. And the reception was positive, without in any way suggesting a musical biopic tracing the same events would soon also become a film of hats-off audacity and unlikely excellence. And yet here is Better Man, in which the subject is clothed but with a caveat.
The filmmaker is known for The Greatest Showman , the all-conquering big-top musical extravaganza. Here his gift for gusto is smartly used. While the early days of Williams’ boy band Take That, for instance, are low-rent, the first rush of success is delirious. Tweaking the timeline, the band and many extras do a mass song-and-dance to Williams’ later hit “Rock DJ” on a light-show Regent Street brash enough it all but reaches out of the screen to steal your drink.
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