the movie gives us only a small taste of it, but it's enough to whet your appetite: for a Bowie biopic that captures this cracked actor in all his funhouse-mirror rock 'n' roll glory
David Bowie's early years get a timid biopic with an explosive star turn; Johnny Flynn bursts off the screen in Gabriel Range's look at Bowie before he hit it big, but the film is never as original as its star or subject
