“Rocketman,” about the life and music of Elton John, is a formulaic, paint-by-numbers biopic.It actually begins at a moment of crucial emotion and flux in the singer’s life, then backtracks to show us how he ended up there—a narrative device that already was a cliché when the brilliant “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” parodied it back in 2007.
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