“A heart-racing, toe-tapping, all-glitter-cannons-blazing triumph”
★★★★★
- Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

“It finds strength in texture, beauty in sadness, and an inspired finale in a crackpot arrangement of one of the singer's greatest hits.”
★★★★★
- Kevin Maher, Times

“Taron Egerton, in a fantastic performance, doesn't impersonate Elton John, he becomes him; he doesn't lip-sync, he sings, making the songs matter in that moment in the story.”
★★★★★
- David Sexton, London Evening Standard

“Pure Elton John, and pure pleasure.”
★★★★★
- Anna Smith, Metro

“This Elton John fantasia reinvents the movie musical in a blast of raw energy"
★★★★
- Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

“A sequin-encrusted delight. On paper it reads like a by-the-book biopic; on screen it explodes with the kind of colour and energy that only Elton John himself could invoke."
★★★★
- John Nugent, Empire Magazine

“Because the film is a cartoon bus, we don't care if the road is often familiar."
★★★★
- Nigel Andrews, Financial Times