A David Bowie bio-pic should perform on the level of Rocketman, but this might just be one of the worst biopics to be made. For those who disliked Bohemian Rhapsody, you will be in for a ride with this one.

| Original Score: D | Mar 1, 2024

Flynn plays his Bowie-inspired character remarkably, and with a level of emotion that, at times, manages to make us forget about the cheap costumes, outdated clichés, laughable mime routines and melodramatic sequences all featured in this movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2023

A nice idea, hampered by circumstance and execution. There will no doubt be many films made about David Bowie and the impact he had on the world. They do well to avoid Stardusts mistakes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2022

Loaded with glum flashbacks and facile psychoanalysis, Stardust tells the story of an interesting man in the least interesting manner imaginable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 23, 2022

David Bowie steps up to a microphone but doesn't sing a David Bowie song? Nobody wants that.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 11, 2021

A revelatory road trip movie...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

If you compare Stardust to Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman ... then this David Bowie drama is like a rare groove B-side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2021

An unauthorized David Bowie biopic without the music begs the question, what's the point?

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2021

As a true-to-life biopic Stardust doesn't really make the grade, and Bowie fans may need to hold their nose, but there's an interesting piece lurking beneath Johnny Flynn's wig. It's just probably not the one you're looking for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 10, 2021

...a small, intelligent drama that riffs creatively on the legend of David Bowie...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Stardust is a startlingly conventional movie about a man who was anything but.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2021

If it is possible to make a good David Bowie film without any David Bowie music-and without the blessing of Bowie's family-then this certainly isn't it.

| Original Score: C | Jan 25, 2021

The low budget leads to an unconvincing re-creation of the period, and the film does a terrible job of capturing the hippie era's tail end as it faded into something new.

| Jan 22, 2021

There's a loose, scruffy charm to this biopic about a pivotal moment in David Bowie's life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 22, 2021

Absolute Beginners might have done a better job.

| Jan 22, 2021

The film stumbles between moods, caught between overt mythmaking and something closer to historical detail, which leaves an enjoyable but incomplete picture of the great musician's life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2021

The whole thing feels strangely pedestrian, unable to capture or channel Bowie's maverick spirit.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 17, 2021

A by-the-numbers biopic that does a disservice to its star and subject, and sorely missing a killer soundtrack. Watch The Man Who Fell To Earth instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2021

Listen to your records. It's all there. There's nothing this film gives you that you didn't already know.

| Jan 16, 2021

A film that, remarkably, seems to get incrementally more awful the longer it lasts.

| Jan 15, 2021