The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman is a hokey glitter bomb of unbridled musical melodrama.

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Ultimately, the whole point of the picture comes down to the tune “This Is Me.” The crux of the song, led by the impressive Keala Settle, is to be comfortable in your own skin no matter what the masses may say.

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Ultimately, “The Greatest Showman” is only a fitfully entertaining, but there’s no faulting the performances.

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Hugh Jackman follows some very stupid dreams in his new musical The Greatest Showman.

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Don’t overthink it, in other words. All “Showman” asks of you is that you give yourself over to the holiday-cheer machine, if you can. Like the circus, it’s an experience that’s been engineered for this precise moment in time, and not one minute longer.

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The Greatest Showman is bonkers, but earnestly so.

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Jackman plays 19th century PT Barnum in a crowd-pleasing if middle-of-the-road film that paints the circus impresario as a body-positive evangelist for diversity.

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Suckers may be bored every minute of the exhausting “The Greatest Showman”

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Hugh Jackman's sanitised PT Barnum musical isn't freaky enough.

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An amusement park version of P.T. Barnum is fine, as far as that goes, but if you are going to aim for family-friendly fun, you need to get the fun part right.

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Hugh Jackman's 'The Greatest Showman' offers rousing show tunes, but little else.

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Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron are "buried" in this "pile of marshmallow" musical about circus impresario P.T. Barnum.

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The bizarre message of “The Greatest Showman,” the new movie musical based on the life of famous trickster P.T. Barnum: Be yourself.

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The Greatest Showman’s spectacle is overshadowed by its archaic and misguided notions of American exceptionalism.

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This isn’t a movie musical. It’s a Las Vegas revue featuring songs aiming for high rotation on a Top 40 radio station, one that will doubtlessly enthrall those moviegoers who mistake spectacle for quality. As Barnum infamously did not say, there’s a sucker born every minute.

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Hugh Jackman plays P.T. Barnum in this family musical inspired by the life of the legendary 19th-century ringmaster, which also features Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Zendaya.

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Forgettable songs, ADHD pacing and cardboard characters make for a shallow biopic of the circusmaster.

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