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Rocketman

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Directed by Dexter Fletcher
Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Adam Bohling, David Reid, and David Furnish
Written by Lee Hall
With: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Gemma Jones, Steven Mackintosh, and Tom Bennett
Cinematography: George Richmond
Editing: Chris Dickens
Music: Matthew Margeson
Runtime: 121 min
Release Date: 31 May 2019
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Elton John’s emotional journey, more than his life story, is expressed as a laundry list of rock biopic tropes fused together in a fever dream of repetitive, incomplete scenes. The jukebox musical approach makes it palatable (for a while) but doesn't do the songs any favors.