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The Greatest Showman tries hard to dazzle the audience with a Barnum-style sense of wonder -- but at the expense of its complex subject's far more intriguing real-life story.
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Like Barnum himself, it's an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don't look too close. December 4, 2018 | Full Review…
Like Barnum himself, it's an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don't look too close.
Sam Adams
... [Hugh Jackman's] feel-good new film, The Greatest Showman, is where he truly gets to unleash his inner trouper, and he barely stops singing, dancing and flicking around a top hat from beginning to end. December 28, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
... [Hugh Jackman's] feel-good new film, The Greatest Showman, is where he truly gets to unleash his inner trouper, and he barely stops singing, dancing and flicking around a top hat from beginning to end.
Nicholas Barber
The director, Michael Gracey, delivers quick doses of excitement in splashy scenes but has little feel for the choreographic action, offers scant historical substance, and displays slender dramatic insight. December 26, 2017 | Full Review…
The director, Michael Gracey, delivers quick doses of excitement in splashy scenes but has little feel for the choreographic action, offers scant historical substance, and displays slender dramatic insight.
Richard Brody
This isn't the story of Barnum's life, but a formulaic rags-to-riches story grafted onto the broad outlines of Barnum's career as a circus entrepreneur. December 23, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
This isn't the story of Barnum's life, but a formulaic rags-to-riches story grafted onto the broad outlines of Barnum's career as a circus entrepreneur.
Matthew Rozsa
Historians now agree that Barnum wasn't the one who said "There's a sucker born every minute," but it's hard to escape the feeling that you're being sold a poptimist bill of goods here. December 22, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Historians now agree that Barnum wasn't the one who said "There's a sucker born every minute," but it's hard to escape the feeling that you're being sold a poptimist bill of goods here.
Matthew Lickona
For all its cheeriness, brio and strong cast, this is a phoney baloney film with heartstring-tweaking, soul-stirring ambitions it is, by a laughable margin, too transparently manipulative to realise. December 22, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
For all its cheeriness, brio and strong cast, this is a phoney baloney film with heartstring-tweaking, soul-stirring ambitions it is, by a laughable margin, too transparently manipulative to realise.
Matthew Norman
This isn't a subtle, finely tuned piece of art, this is cheery lunacy that revels in its attempt to call back on the positive musicals of the past. February 15, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
This isn't a subtle, finely tuned piece of art, this is cheery lunacy that revels in its attempt to call back on the positive musicals of the past.
Peter Gray
My question is, why not focus on the real facts by digging deeper? What a shame, not only to Barnum's character but also to Lind's. January 27, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
My question is, why not focus on the real facts by digging deeper? What a shame, not only to Barnum's character but also to Lind's.
Sarah Knight Adamson
The Greatest Showman is so much fun. You got Hugh Jackman's contagious charisma, Zac Efron holding his own and Zendaya flying through the air with ease. January 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Greatest Showman is so much fun. You got Hugh Jackman's contagious charisma, Zac Efron holding his own and Zendaya flying through the air with ease.
Shawn Edwards
This film may not be the greatest show, but in this film, [Hugh] Jackman is the greatest showman. October 10, 2019 | Full Review…
This film may not be the greatest show, but in this film, [Hugh] Jackman is the greatest showman.
Linda and Al Lerner
It is true that the entire technical department is essential for 'The Great Showman' to become what it is, but everything would have been in vain without Jackman's fundamental presence. [Full Review in Spanish] August 2, 2019 | Full Review…
It is true that the entire technical department is essential for 'The Great Showman' to become what it is, but everything would have been in vain without Jackman's fundamental presence. [Full Review in Spanish]
Mikel Zorrilla
From the cast to the costumes to the music, The Greatest Showman has so much to offer and with a PG rating, it's the perfect movie to take the whole family to this holiday season August 2, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
From the cast to the costumes to the music, The Greatest Showman has so much to offer and with a PG rating, it's the perfect movie to take the whole family to this holiday season
Allison Rose
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