The Greatest Showman (2017) | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth.

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Critics Consensus

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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The story might not be anything special, but if it's a singing, dancing extravaganza you seek, The Greatest Showman delivers.

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Chris Bennion

Times (UK)

Give in. Roll up. Sing along.

Aug 22, 2023

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Sam Adams

Slate

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

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Esther Zuckerman

Marie Claire

[This] kind of insanity is really fun to watch. The Greatest Showman is a lot of things, but it's not boring.

Jan 12, 2018

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Brian T. Carney

Washington Blade

The vivid cinematography by Seamus McGarvey and the exquisite costumes by Ellen Mirojnick capture the magic of Barnum’s circus and give the picture an attractive period feel.

Dec 15, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Quite incongruously,The Greatest Showmansuggests that Barnum is a heroic figure, a wokeentertainer and family man, who also capitalized on animal suffering and the veritable prostitution of human oddity.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 16, 2022

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

The movie is a big, loud explosion of color and excitement but one the party's over, somebody's got to clean it all up.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 11, 2022

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Mei THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/27/22 Full Review Katie D Such a great, fun, feel-good movie! I really enjoyed it - listen to the audience ratings, not the critic reviews! don't expect historical accuracy, but definitely expect a good time, heartfelt music and amazing performances! Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/15/21 Full Review Sebastian S Great movie.what an experience! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/12/24 Full Review C u Well, this is s very cliche American movie, the problematic to solve its pretty much like a mexican soap opra and to many unnecessary songs, the lights and colors are okay for keep a kid entrained and to many production $$ in the movie def they could do better Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/10/24 Full Review Joshua F Best musical since moulin Rouge !! I just left watching it with the biggest smile in duck a long time. Wow !! The voices. The music. The art. And reading the bitter grumpy PC “critics” was hilarious… what a bunch of sad people. If they left their brain out and came with the heart and ears and eyes - they would have been swept away also. HUGH IS JUST MAGNIFICENT. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/10/24 Full Review Rosie F Musical masterpiece Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Michael Gracey Director Hugh Jackman P.T. Barnum Zac Efron Phillip Carlyle Michelle Williams Charity Barnum Rebecca Ferguson Jenny Lind Zendaya Anne Wheeler

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