{"id":446794,"date":"2026-04-21T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/446794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:43:12","slug":"the-first-reviews-are-in-for-the-michael-jackson-biopic-theyre-bad-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/446794\/","title":{"rendered":"The first reviews are in for the Michael Jackson biopic. They&#039;re bad. &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxORkUyQUUzM2Z2dkRUd1c0WW53WUhzcWN4S3hQTnhXQXpPUHBMeTYtWkZUUGdmSzhwLTNzckp3S19uY2s0N041VHhBN2F5RlVtZ0JNUTdzSk9xb0tlVHY5TFZEUFBHUGZZOUlrUG15Z1Juc0N5T2ZialJwdXB5TUZUTDBlNA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The first reviews are in for the Michael Jackson biopic. They&#8217;re bad.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQZVFCcUdDZ3BZb2dpMlBLV1c0NVJSNndhNEhvc2pySnhhaXdrd2pyU3B0VnUtNjlDRGFWWVE2d05QOTZpMG82UjlkV3JzTWc2dU1KR1M1QlgzNFZmRkRleXpnWlVJMnZiTUJNX2c1NEY5dzlsVGdHN0w3aVFqOG0tWmtpRzB1RFNMMG5yaHU5czBGbDZNLVJfR0pvSVMzckRLajdwRkV3ZUV2dU1PUGJxTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael review \u2013 cliched Jackson biopic is bland, bowdlerised \u2026 and bad<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE40ZWxacUxqSUJUbVEzVDJIcGQ2bVlUeGY3Yzczb1FmVE5fT3lmYm90MnBHWDJfN2MwOVBQek1CajNMcl9TdmVscTdJZHdUUTRKallOVEVKRUVvZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Jackson film is a &#8216;whitewash&#8217; and &#8216;ghoulish&#8217;, critics say<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxQakE2T2Jvb2FBQ2huUHBJSEpQeDVNdXFYYk45V1p3TmxqMEtWeHdJSlVtZXlocmhjOEh1eDRlRXpmdU4tcHFwQ2E0X2VJSFN5VVNCOVpHbmp4Znd0TDBWaC1YRXUtbGRUSm9rR1gwQk1lM1kzSnZyT2kzY1VyNE5POHhtWWdPYXpsUk1BME5Wc2dyTndKNXVvcnV2WXhsSWFaQ0lvOEFhMm5GSGVsUDVodlZ3U183YmtK?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael movie review : Michael: strong performances but only half the story<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNRE1oazVUVFNhQVBSZXYyZWM0X28zVlEybFdkTFlfQ3dNN21QTS1vbFZ0bnVlUDZYWmZSOUxVTklpTHM5UGFkUkw1ckNydWFtdzM5dGE3TUR3ZWxkQlhMbHJtckk4NXFMUEJaY2ZqdTJtRUFqSU82QndQZ2JNZ0FaakZmQ2xyTGRwS010WEFhUExUc19vVGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael review \u2014 risible biopic turns Jacko into a 20th-century Jesus<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first reviews are in for the Michael Jackson biopic. They&#8217;re bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal Michael review \u2013 cliched Jackson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[87527,57711,18,117,597,19,17,97557,19695,25129,337,197254],"class_list":["post-446794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bad","tag-biopic","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jaafar-jackson","tag-michael","tag-michael-jackson","tag-music","tag-really-really-bad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116443939245217020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}