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The Greatest Showman
Directed by
Michael Gracey
PG
2017
1h 45m
Musical
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Drama
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7.5
56%
86%
7.9
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Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
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Cast of The Greatest Showman
Hugh Jackman
P. T. Barnum
Zac Efron
Phillip Carlyle
Michelle Williams
Charity Barnum
Rebecca Ferguson
Jenny Lind
Zendaya
Anne Wheeler
Keala Settle
Lettie Lutz
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
W. D. Wheeler
Natasha Liu Bordizzo
Deng Yan
Paul Sparks
James Gordon Bennett
Sam Humphrey
Charles Stratton
Austyn Johnson
Caroline Barnum
Cameron Seely
Helen Barnum
Eric Anderson
Mr. O'Malley
Ellis Rubin
Young P. T. Barnum
Skylar Dunn
Young Charity Hallett
Daniel Everidge
Lord of Leeds
Radu Spinghel
O'Clancy
Yusaku Komori
Chang Bunker
Danial Son
Eng Bunker
Will Swenson
Philo Barnum
The Greatest Showman Ratings & Reviews
Slate
Sam Adams
Like Barnum himself, it's an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don't look too close.
Marie Claire
Esther Zuckerman
[This] kind of insanity is really fun to watch. The Greatest Showman is a lot of things, but it's not boring.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
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.
Salon.com
Matthew Rozsa
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.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
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.
Village Voice
April Wolfe
The Greatest Showman is a perfunctory effort in story, music, dance, and direction that proffers empty messages about uniqueness, reaching not for the stars but for bland homogeneity.
Observer
Rex Reed
To make room for all the boring songs, historic facts are all but eliminated, leaving only the bare bones of Barnum's life.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon whitewash history at every turn, making Barnum a warm, paternal figure beloved by his sideshow performers, wife, and children.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
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.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Amazingly, a virtuoso Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, spare-no-expense production values and a score by Oscar (La La Land) and Tony (Dear Evan Hansen) winners Ben Pasek and Justin Paul add up to a shrill blast of nothing
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
For sheer, go-for-broke nuttiness, The Greatest Showman stands alone in the landscape of this holiday season's crop of movies, and I urge you to give it a chance.
Spectrum Culture
Kristen Lopez
The Greatest Showman will work best with musical purists, those who aren't turned off by spontaneous bursts of song and an overly sentimentalized view of history.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But as pure entertainment, Gracey's energetic effort succeeds in a way that goes well beyond anything I anticipated before entering the theatre.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
It often feels like a collection of slickly produced music videos, loosely tied together with a plot we're not supposed to care too much about.
Slashfilm
Karen Han
The Greatest Showman is a con artist's bauble, which is to say: it'll swindle you and it'll lie to you, but it's not without its charms.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The joy the performers exhibit is practically contagious, and helps carry the movie over its drier patches.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
An unabashed piece of pure entertainment, punctuated by 11 memorable songs.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Emily Yoshida
By the end, I found myself exhausted by the idea of wonder, not to mention the film's notion that critics - those evil, fun-hating critics - are immune to it.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
Like a Pyongyang history book, "Showman" director Michael Gracey has polished away real events, ignoring Barnum's dark past and the seediness of his 19th-century New York.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
The film is best appreciated as a showcase for Jackman, who makes a dazzling Barnum and holds on to our sympathies even as the character proves to be something of a heel.
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Rebecca Ferguson On The Story
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Michael Gracey On Hugh Jackman's Talents
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Zendaya On What The Circus Offers Oddities
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Michelle Williams On Why She Wanted The Role
Michelle Williams On Why She Wanted The Role
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Keala Settle On PT Barnum And His Imagination
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Zac Efron On His Character And His Shortcomings
Zac Efron On His Character And His Shortcomings
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Benj Pasek & Justin Paul On How They Got Involved With The Film
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