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By Rebecca Murray (740) for Showbiz Junkies (143) on 21 Dec 2017

The Greatest Showman whitewashes P.T. Barnum's story, which is not in the least bit unexpected…

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By Dana Barbuto (184) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 21 Dec 2017

Michael Gracey taps into his visual effects background to create a feast of style, spectacle, song and sexiness, the latter brought to us by…

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By Rob Dean (54) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 21 Dec 2017

The film never totally gets a grip on the story it's telling, only the story it wants to tell, and as such becomes a tedious exercise in shallow…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 21 Dec 2017

The sweetness that makes so much of this better than it probably had a right to be also makes it far from disastrous that it's so much less…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 21 Dec 2017

The music is appealing and blessedly energetic, the storytelling presented is frustratingly fractured…

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By Mario Alegre (61) for Próxima Tanda (54) on 21 Dec 2017

As with La La Land, the songwriting duo of Benji Pasek and Justin Paul have produced a catchy soundtrack that will get more plays than the…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for IGN (1,013) on 21 Dec 2017

The Greatest Showman is wildly entertaining even when it’s spectacularly false, which is a lot of the time…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 21 Dec 2017

In style, if not substance, The Greatest Showman is reminiscent of the Disney film, Newsies…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 21 Dec 2017

But while it may not be strong on nuance and the story moves with all the careful pacing of a human cannonball, it’s got gusto and verve…

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By Emma Stefansky (22) for Uproxx (697) on 21 Dec 2017

Like Barnum’s menagerie, it’s escapism at its finest, tossing away the shackles of realism to dazzle us with this strange spectacle, leaving…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 21 Dec 2017

It’s got a great beat and you can dance to it (or Jackman, Efron and the rest can, anyway). And Barnum would have loved it…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 21 Dec 2017

Like Barnum himself, it’s an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don’t look too close…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Dec 2017

Hugh Jackman is charming as ever, and two dance scenes are mildly inventive and well-executed, yet Jackman’s goodwill and a splash of inspired…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 20 Dec 2017

I'm convinced there is a good movie trying to punch itself out of The Greatest Showman…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 20 Dec 2017

The preachy “Showman” argues that Barnum should be celebrated for bringing “freaks” like the bearded lady and others out of the shadows…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Dec 2017

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

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 20 Dec 2017

The soundtrack for the P.T Barnum biopic musical The Greatest Showman is chock full of amazing and catchy tunes you’ll be humming after the…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 20 Dec 2017

The film is driven to please audiences. It's like a child in a roomful of adults who tries various disruptive behaviors to gain attention…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 20 Dec 2017

Not sure if first-time director Michael Gracey will get that much fame out of The Greatest Showman, but this cheeky monkey makes for some fun,…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Dec 2017

This ersatz portrait of American big-top tent impresario P.T. Barnum is all smoke and mirrors, no substance…

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