Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.
Blitz Bazawule delivers an all singing, all dancing update of Alice Walker’s harrowing story of women in postbellum Georgia.
This movie based on a musical based on a movie based on a book retains none of the biting wit that charmed audiences in its original iteration.
A young woman's dream gig on television descends into chaos in Amanda Kramer's imaginative new melodrama.
By Robyn Quick
Benjamin Millepied’s reimagining of Georges Bizet's classic opera is beautiful to behold, but lacks musical pizzazz.
Amanda Kramer's alluring, neon-lit musical feature sees a newlywed couple catapulted into a queer awakening.
A dancer and a musician form a unique friendship in Masaaki Yuasa's fantastical animated musical.
By Leila Latif
Joe Wright returns to his wheelhouse with a big-screen musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
Steven Spielberg comes a-cropper in this stiff and soulless revamp of the classic Leonard Bernstein barnstormer.
By Elena Lazic
Jonathan Larson’s celebrated stage musical gets the Lin-Manuel Miranda treatment – for better and for worse.
By Corey Atad
This well-intentioned but glaringly wrongheaded adaptation of the Tony-winning musical is one of the year’s worst.
Tom MacRae and Dan Gillespie Sells’ hit West End show is fabulously translated to the big screen.
Leos Carax’s surreal, Sparks-scripted musical-of-sorts stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as ill-fated lovers.
New York is teeming with sweaty, joyous life in the exuberant musical from Crazy Rich Asians’ Jon M Chu.
The controversy surrounding Sia’s directorial debut should not distract from its basic cinematic failings.
Forest Whitaker stars as a down-on-his-luck toymaker in David E Talbert’s festive family frolic.
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