Female Film Critics 24/375
While Scream, Queen! is a movie about Freddy’s Revenge — and a welcome step back into the horror saga a decade after it released its most recent chapter — it’s really a movie about the film’s star, Mark Patton, who thought he’d earned the door-opening role of a lifetime but was then forced to weather the ebbs and flows the industry could throw at a gay man in 80s-era mainstream Hollywood.
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In the end, Bohemian Rhapsody offers a chronicle of the years leading up to Queen’ most legendary appearance at the 1985s Live Aid Concert and why it was simply out of world.
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Confession: Rock music is not my thing, so perhaps I’m the only person on the planet who didn’t know who Freddie Mercury or Queen was – until now – and Rami Malek’s magnificent performance blew me away! Named after Queen’s innovative, six-minute, genre-melding musical masterpiece, this film chronicles the rise-and-fall of the band’s flamboyant, yet enigmatic frontman.
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Bohemian Rhapsody soars like Mercury. Freddie Mercury lived boldly, brilliantly, wildly, musically, and he died far too young of complications of AIDS. In this biopic, the band, Queen, collaborated with their drama queen on the music, its presentation and its evolutions. And Bohemian Rhapsody re-vivifies the life.
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