The Greatest Showman (dir. Michael Gracey).

[it’s] an enjoyable enough experience, but the film could really be about anyone. [P.T.] Barnum’s long, infamous history as a politician, purveyor of hoaxes, swindler, and American huckster are ignored for a safe portrait of an idealist visionary. The cast of misfits and outcasts are used to artificially move forward a false musical narrative it simply never justifies.

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