Movie Review: Michael Jackson’s Music Shines in Uneven Biopic
Critics say the film omits later abuse allegations after legal issues forced deletions from the screenplay, leaving Jackson’s story largely ending with his rise to solo fame.
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Movie Review: Michael Jackson’s music shines in uneven biopic
I am the perfect age to be a Michael Jackson superfan. He released “Thriller” while I was in high school, started doing weird things when I moved to South America, and dropped “Bad” just as I came back to the…
Film reviews: ‘Michael’ and ‘Mother’
‘Michael’Directed by Antoine Fuqua (PG-13)★“Michael is like if you made a cheery biopic of Bill Cosby that ended with his successful run on The Cosby Show,” said Nick Schager in The Daily Beast. “A deliberate act of whitewashing,” the long-awaited new Michael Jackson biopic presents the crowd-pleasing half of a “sordid” true tale, cutting short its account just before it would have become necessary to revisit the multiple allegations of child se…
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