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Michael Is a Brutally Dull Biopic With Nothing to Say About Michael Jackson

This one's no thriller.

Peter Suderman | 4.24.2026 11:58 AM

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After seeing Michael, the new Michael Jackson biopic, I can only imagine what the pitch session must have been like: Let's make a movie about Michael Jackson, the famously talented, weird, and controversial pop star—and under no circumstances will we say or even hint anything even slightly interesting about Michael Jackson. I am tempted to say this movie plays like a Wikipedia entry with a soundtrack, but even that gives it too much credit. Wikipedia pages on famous personages almost always have a section labeled "controversies." 

This brutally dull movie dodges even the smallest speed bumps in its subject's life, smoothing out Jackson's path to pop stardom like the cinematic equivalent of a Zamboni machine, lest it be accused of having even a modicum........

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