'Better Man' Review: Robbie Williams Is a CGI Monkey In Wild Take on the Music Biopic

How do you spice up another musician's ego-soothing biographical drama? Monkeys. I'm not joking. Better Man started as a conversation between English pop royalty Robbie Williams and director Michael Gracey. Williams expressed feeling like a dancing monkey in stages of his performance career, which Gracey valued as a unique visual hook. Instead of depending on an actor to recreate historic performances from an iconic musician, Williams provides the voice for a CG primate version of himself. It's a bonkers decision that works better than it should, finding a fresh spin on another drug-fueled cabaret of an origin story.