Tag: Rami Malek
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“Papillon”: Manages to Escape the Original
I deliberately avoided watching the Steve McQueen-Dustin Hoffman Papillon so I could judge the merits of the Charlie Hunnam-Rami Malek version without the weight of cinematic history altering my experience and opinion. The verdict: this new Papillon is a fairly engrossing and well done account of Henri Charriere various escape attempts from a brutal and…
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“Bohemian Rhapsody”Bringing on the Myth of Mercury and Queen
Queen was a good rock band made great by its frontman, Freddie Mercury. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good rock film made great by the performance of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Malik is the plus one that makes Bohemian Rhapsody soar, rises it above its standard rock bio pic origins, and even its egregious Mercury…