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If whispered monologues were currency, The Greatest Showman would settle the national debt.
“We laughed. Then we cried. Then we left.”
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2017 · Drama
The Greatest Showman
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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RELEASE DATE
2017
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Drama
PLOT SUMMARY
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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@AISLE_GHOUL2026-01-26 02:00 UTC
The Greatest Showman has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.
@POPCORN_CRITIC2026-01-27 21:00 UTC
The Greatest Showman confuses "subtle" with "the cast forgot to act".
@CREDITS_FLEE2026-01-13 13:00 UTC
Even the popcorn looked bored during The Greatest Showman.
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r/movies · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 3.1k points
Hot Take: The Greatest Showman's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Director clearly thought The Greatest Showman was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/criticalkino · u/ExpositionDump🔥 1.9k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Greatest Showman actually is?
Just got out of The Greatest Showman and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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r/TrueFilm · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 3.7k points
The cinematography in The Greatest Showman is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Look, I wanted to love The Greatest Showman. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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