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'Better Man' review: All hail Robbie Williams, a chimp for all seasons

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Summary
Nutrition label

60% Informative

Better Man is a biopic that folds in hits from across his career to bolster the artist’s highs and lows.

Writer/director Michael Gracey ( The Greatest Showman ) has done something daring in the space of the music biopic, which has too often proved achingly clichéd.

Better Man is a film that feels grandiose, outrageous, deeply personal, and joltingly relatable.

It’s Billy Elliot meets Rocketman meets Planet of the Apes.

The film was reviewed out of its Canadian Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival .

Paramount has acquired distribution rights.

VR Score

44

Informative language

34

Neutral language

17

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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