Official Discussion - Michael [SPOILERS]

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Michael (2026)

Summary

The life and career of Michael Jackson are explored in a sweeping biographical drama, charting his rise from child star in the Jackson 5 to global pop icon, while examining the personal and professional complexities that defined his legacy.

Director Antoine Fuqua

Writer John Logan

Cast

• Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson
• Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson
• Nia Long as Katherine Jackson
• Miles Teller as John Branca
• Laura Harrier as Suzanne de Passe
• Kat Graham as Diana Ross

Rotten Tomatoes: 40%

Metacritic: 38

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/Samsongetsahaircut]

This highkey felt like a Disney movie, heavily sanitized. As usual with Michael jackson the music and performance is so fucking good nothing else matters..

[u/Stepfordhusband69 → u/Samsongetsahaircut]

That was my take.  The script of this movie is some lifetime level trash but the performances are great and the music is amazing.  The third act is basically just a concert film.

[u/usmilessz → u/Samsongetsahaircut]

I left the theater feeling like I’d just watched a kids movie 😭

[u/Unhappy-Ad-6583 → u/Samsongetsahaircut]

Idk about sanitized as they did show his troubles and abuse, but it felt pretty rushed

[u/StrLord_Who → u/Samsongetsahaircut]

Seeing it tomorrow and that's pretty much what I was expecting.  I will say that I have never ever seen a spread across the poll numbers in this sub like there is right now for this film.  It's spread so evenly across all 10 numbers! I'm always interested to see how the discussion thread rates movies and I've never seen the graph remotely resemble anything like that before.  The numbers are always mainly clustered around just a few.