pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
78
from 111 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
49
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
74
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 111 comments (82 from Reddit, 25 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 21 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. Around the middle it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow, 2 that gave people chills.
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“The opening alone made me want to get up and cheer”
lak_27 · Reddit ↗
“The pacing was great. It didn't feel like it dragged anywhere.”
J_Jammer · Reddit ↗
“The subtly of the "Never Enough" scene was breathtaking. The singing, the framing, the back and forth between the actors (facial expressions) was so moving and telling.”
J_Jammer · Reddit ↗
“That opening number from Hugh was on point. "Ladies and gents this is the moment you waited for" how can you not have a good time with that?”
BinksBabe · Reddit ↗
“I loved the starting scene, the build up to the explosion to the transition to reality was absolutely beautiful.”
aesthetician99 · Reddit ↗
“The first 20 minutes I was pretty sure my brother was going leave because the movie wasnt good”
DIRTYDAN555 · Reddit ↗
Read 24 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.
“The Greatest Showman is the feel-good (and feel good about it) movie every holiday season needs. P.T. Barnum is famous for saying there’s a sucker born every minute and he’s still right. For 105 minutes I’m a sucker for his movie, that may not be the greatest show on Earth but close enough.”
Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times · 100
“The director, Michael Gracey, is an Australian maker of commercials who has never directed a feature before, and he works with an exuberant sincerity that can’t be faked. The Greatest Showman is a concoction, the kind of film where the pieces all click into place, yet at an hour and 45 minutes it flies by, and the link it draws between P.T. Barnum and the spirit of today is more than hype.”
Owen Gleiberman, Variety · 90
“The Greatest Showman, directed with verve and panache by Michael Gracey, is an unabashed piece of pure entertainment, punctuated by 11 memorable songs composed by Oscar- and Tony-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”
Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com · 88
“The Greatest Showman is wildly entertaining even when it’s spectacularly false, which is a lot of the time. But everyone is enjoying themselves on-screen, so you might as well enjoy yourself too.”
William Bibbiani, IGN · 79
“The movie never quite stops feeling like Moulin Rouge! written in extra-large block font, or Broadway projected straight onto a big screen, which certainly isn’t bad news if that’s exactly what you love.”
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly · 75
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it plays better than it reviews — critics 52, the watch 78
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“The opening alone made me want to get up and cheer”
lak_27▲ 412about 0–10% inread it ↗
“The pacing was great. It didn't feel like it dragged anywhere.”
J_Jammer▲ 249about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The subtly of the "Never Enough" scene was breathtaking. The singing, the framing, the back and forth between the actors (facial expressions) was so moving and telling.”
J_Jammer▲ 249about 50–60% inread it ↗
“That opening number from Hugh was on point. "Ladies and gents this is the moment you waited for" how can you not have a good time with that?”
BinksBabe▲ 128about 0–10% inread it ↗
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