Movie Review: Robbie Williams has always lived to entertain. In ‘Better Man,’ he’s still doing it

Robbie Williams may not be familiar to many in the United States, but in his native Britain, he became a huge pop star, performing to adoring crowds and making 14 No. 1 singles. Williams, now 50, produces and narrates his story in “Better Man,” a biopic that seeks to do what he sought obsessively to do from childhood — to entertain. Director Michael Gracey's most audacious move, writes Associated Press critic Jocelyn Noveck, is to present Williams throughout as a CGI monkey, his moves and speaking voice captured by actor Jonno Davies. Mostly, it all works surprisingly well. In theaters.