The Greatest Showman

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.

Critic Reviews:

• " Like Barnum himself, it's an elegant fraud, nice enough to look at as long as you don't look too close. " – Sam Adams

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

• " As I've noted, a lot of capital-N names helped make this film. But the director, the bloke who wore a beanie to the red carpet premiere in Sydney, deserves our admiration. He is the showman who, like Barnum, has his name above the door. " – Stephen Romei