@RATIO_RAT2025-12-18 09:00 UTC
Great Performances is two hours of talking heads agreeing with themselves on a moving B-roll.
“Not even a post-credits scene could save this.”
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1971 · Comedy / Documentary / Drama
Great Performances
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Comedy / Documentary / Drama
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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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@REEL_DEAL2025-12-24 18:00 UTC
If whispered monologues were currency, Great Performances would settle the national debt.
@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-27 17:00 UTC
Great Performances confuses "subtle" with "the cast forgot to act".
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-28 23:00 UTC
Great Performances is a cinematic experience designed specifically for film students who want to feel superior at dinner parties.
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r/boxoffice · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 0.5k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Great Performances?
Honestly, Great Performances would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/criticalkino · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 2.0k points
Hot Take: Great Performances's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Everyone praising the Great Performances performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/criticalkino · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 1.7k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Great Performances?
Look, I wanted to love Great Performances. 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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r/flicks · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 2.6k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Great Performances actually is?
Just got out of Great Performances 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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