“Rocketman” (*** out of four) was an entertaining look at the early life of Elton John (Taron Egerton) who became a pop phenomenon in the 70’s but still had to come to terms with his place in rock music and with his homosexuality and various personal and family problems that led him to drugs and depression and threatened to end his life. Not so much a biography as a musical, which encompasses his upbringing and the early part of his career, but it is well-done and features plenty of his early great music. But the film wouldn’t work so well without Egerton who is first-rate in the lead and a dead-ringer for John.