Why Critics Hated The Greatest Showman

I HATE the Greatest Showman : r/movies - Reddit

It is the embodiment of a bad film that is only loved because of the dance numbers and songs. Its themes are so poorly executed and they contradict each other.

Why Critics Hated The Greatest Showman (And Why They're Wrong)

Criticism included that it didn't cover the true story of Barnum's circus in a fulfilling way and that it was shallow and watered down. Thus, ...

The Critical Sin of 'The Greatest Showman': It's Defiantly Uncool

Here, I think, is why the reviews have been so united in their hate. The points raised above can all be debated, but what the critics are really ...

Why is there a big divide between critic and audience reactions to ...

The two main criticisms of The Greatest Showman from film critics are that it's fake and happy. Funny, because those are the exact same criticisms given in the ...

The songs in The Greatest Showman are entirely dumb as crap, dreadful and pathetic, not to mentioned that the movie was completely terrible.

The Worst Show - A Historian's Account of The Greatest Showman's ...

The life of Barnum that is portrayed in the film is pretty much completely unfaithful to his actual life, so why bother calling this character ...

'The Greatest Showman' Is a Spectacular Show But Ignores Some ...

Where The Greatest Showman beats La La Land in casting and production quality, it falters in the far more important arena for a feel-good story: capturing a ...

The real story behind The Greatest Showman is one of exploitation ...

In truth, Barnum tore apart families, denying them the ability to practice their culture, all the while exploiting the western world's voyeuristic curiosity ...

Critics hated The Greatest Showman – but is it a classic in the making?

No, not PT Barnum's circus freakshow, but the Hollywood retelling of Barnum's life, The Greatest Showman. Starring Hugh Jackman as the 19th ...

You Explain What's Truly Great About 'The Greatest Showman'

Critics hate “The Greatest Showman”; moviegoers love it. The split caught professional film journalists like myself by surprise when the ...

The Greatest Showman Is the Fakest Show on Earth - Vulture

It is among the more transparent gay-metaphor numbers in the film (which is mostly comprised of gay-metaphor numbers), but also the one song ...

The Greatest Showman Review: An aggressively awful musical ...

In fact, the film is better when no one is singing. And then there's the treatment of women, mostly relegated to plot points or objects to be ...

How The Greatest Showman rewrote the stars to become a monster ...

Critics certainly did not embrace the movie en masse, but it scored a 48 rating on Metacritic and a 56 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is ...

The Greatest Showman critic reviews - Metacritic

The Greatest Showman is the feel-good (and feel good about it) movie every holiday season needs. PT Barnum is famous for saying there's a sucker born every ...

I'm unhappy with The Greatest Showman Tomatometer Rating

Despite what the critics think, it appears the audience loved it, with the film carrying an audience score of 89% and an endless exclamation of love and delight ...

The Greatest Showman (2017) - User reviews - IMDb

Rather than the critics, trust the viewer reviews, the box office numbers, and the fact that it stayed popular in theaters for so long, they had to forcibly ...

The Greatest Showman - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes

It is a frustrating mess, with much to mock. However, I do admit to being swept along with some of the musical numbers and circus scenes. Ultimately I have to ...

The Greatest Showman movie review (2017) | Roger Ebert

Barnum actually didn't say the quote most associated with him ("There's a sucker born every minute") but he might as well have said it and his critics despised ...

'The Greatest Showman' turns Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum into a ...

Scorning the professional distance that typically separates critics from the artists they write about, Bennett strides up to Barnum (Hugh ...

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Official Reviews/Reactions (SPOILERS)

When the embargo stays too long, the gossip would be it's because the movie is not great/bad and the studio is delaying the reviews publication probably to give ...