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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. Dec 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. Dec 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. Dec 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. Dec 22, 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. Dec 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. Dec 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
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] Aug 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 Aug 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
Hugh Jackman is asked to merely coast in a splashy but shallow picture that might as well have been called American Idle. Jul 21, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Hugh Jackman is asked to merely coast in a splashy but shallow picture that might as well have been called American Idle.
Matt Brunson
In the end, just like Barnum himself, it's all a fraud. Jun 3, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
In the end, just like Barnum himself, it's all a fraud.
Matthew Lucas
What annoys me The Greatest Showman is that it is very much the idea of musicals that persons who don't watch musicals have. It is light and bubbly, inoffensive, and without much depth. May 21, 2019 | Full Review…
What annoys me The Greatest Showman is that it is very much the idea of musicals that persons who don't watch musicals have. It is light and bubbly, inoffensive, and without much depth.
Andrew Kendall
An uplifting story with catchy music that could have developed more characters outside of its lead. May 8, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
An uplifting story with catchy music that could have developed more characters outside of its lead.
Jason Escamilla
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