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A succession of predigested clichés: Bohemian Rhapsody reviewed

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

There is a moment in Bohemian Rhapsody when the screen swims with print. The reviews for Queen’s epic new single are in, and they unanimously denounce the song as a vacuous and bloated irrelevance. This feels like a brazen hostage to fortune for a biopic whose botched gestation saw writers, stars and directors roll on and off the project for a decade.

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