Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Bohemian Rhapsody rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.9/10· 639K votes

Rotten Tomatoes60%

Metacritic49%

TMDb7.958/10· 18K votes

With 60% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.9/10 on IMDb and 49/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Bohemian Rhapsody

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

Cast of Bohemian Rhapsody

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  Rami Malek

  as Freddie Mercury

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  Gwilym Lee

  as Brian May

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  Ben Hardy

  as Roger Taylor

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  Joseph Mazzello

  as John Deacon

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  Lucy Boynton

  as Mary Austin

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  Aidan Gillen

  as John Reid

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  Allen Leech

  as Paul Prenter

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  Tom Hollander

  as Jim Beach

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  Mike Myers

  as Ray Foster

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  Aaron McCusker

  as Jim Hutton

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  Meneka Das

  as Jer Bulsara

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  Ace Bhatti

  as Bomi Bulsara

Bohemian Rhapsody facts

Budget

$52M

Box office

$910.8M

Our take on Bohemian Rhapsody

Bryan Singer's 2018 drama traces the rise of Queen from a scrappy 1970 formation to arena-filling fame, framed around frontman Freddie Mercury and the bandmates who built the sound with him. It is a crowd-pleasing musical biography that prizes momentum and singalong energy over granular detail, threading familiar hits through the story of a group learning to hold together as success and excess pull at the seams. The film works best as an emotional celebration rather than a forensic history. It suits viewers who love the music and want a rousing, accessible portrait of a performer's showmanship, and who don't mind a tidy dramatic arc smoothing over life's rougher edges.