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Releasing on Jan 17, 2025
- 2025
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 11 m
- 2025
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 11 m
Directed By: Michael Gracey
Written By: Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole, Michael Gracey
- 2025
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 11 m
- 2025
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 11 m
Better Man
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Directed By: Michael Gracey
Written By: Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole, Michael Gracey
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Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
72
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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If Bob Fosse had fallen in love with CGI instead of jazz hands, this is probably the kind of movie he would’ve made.
Gracey’s involving and immersive direction sweeps us up and out of our seats, refreshing beats that have grown musty in this territory (does every musician have a bad dad and a drug problem?) with endlessly inventive transitions and montages that find ways to offer something unexpected.
This is a biopic made by a mad man, filmed in a visual language that defies categorization, with musical numbers that would make Baz Luhrmann dizzy.
Better Man is in a category of successful biopic dramatizations all unto itself.
[Gracey's] angle is frustratingly familiar, though the execution is downright astonishing — we’re talking Wachowski-level ingenuity as Gracey fashions sophisticated montages where you can’t even spot the cuts.
Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.
While the musical elements often take the movie to impressive artistic heights, it’s not just the storyline that ends up hindering Better Man.
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Awards
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination