Better Man (2024)
Directed by Michael Gracey
Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
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What critics compared Better Man to
Other than the uncomfortably honest Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and the parodical Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, these films seldom break out of the finely carved mold of image-rehabilitating cinematic exercises.
You’ll get your occasional Better Man, Rocketman, and tick, tick… BOOM!: What makes these projects stand out amongst the rest is their ability and willingness to portray the artist in question from a vulnerable lens.
The best musician biopics—movies like Rocketman, Elvis, and Better Man—never forget their subjects are mortal.
…it still fails to creatively play with an overdone genre to the levels of surprisingly subversive and emotionally resonant biopics like the Elton John musical Rocketman or even the Robbie Williams-is-a-CGI-chimp romp Better Man.
It’s a genre that favors bold swings in the form of something like Better Man, or even the bombastic insanity of Elvis.
The physicality convinces, as do the animal strength, agitated shrieking, and sudden explosions of violent rage—even if the masks and prosthetics often recall the headgear worn in 2024’s bizarre Robbie Williams bio-musical Better Man, requiring considerable suspension of disbelief.
Primate is no Better Man…
2024’s underrated Better Man, for instance, re-casts its subject — British pop icon Robbie Williams – as a CGI monkey.