A musical, such as this, perhaps was made more for enjoyment and foot tapping as opposed to an in-depth look at self discovery, but Prom did not even have the enjoyment factor that it wished to have.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 24, 2025

Crucially, The Prom has the satire of Glee, but not its tenderness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2024

In the middle of a pandemic, this plot feels extremely tone-deaf and once again celebrities mocking themselves but never realizing they are the actual problem in society.

| Aug 22, 2023

The Prom is a campy film that brings all the zazz, even with its major issues.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 22, 2023

Taking the vainglorious Broadway actors out of the equation, Pellman and DeBose have a sweet, intoxicating relationship bolstered by an amazingly supportive, hardly recognizable Tracey Ullman and an only slightly out of his depth Keegan-Michael Key.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2022

While Murphy’s trademark glossy, high-octane conceit is a feast for the eyes, the heart often goes hungry.

| Sep 30, 2022

Murphy’s stamp is all over the final product — from the flashy musical numbers to the stunt-casting of gay icons Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman — and being honest, it may be one of the best things he’s made in recent memory.

| Sep 28, 2022

The Prom is the energetic and extravagant feel-good entertainment that 2020 has been missing, full of style, soul, and a whole lot of showtunes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

An expanded but mostly faithful reimagining that maintains the bones of its stage-bound architecture while also deepening some of its more sensitive moments

| May 20, 2022

Instead of reinvigorating the material as it moves from the stage to the screen, it instead feels like Murphy desperately pumping the material full of artificial sweetener.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 13, 2022

At its worst, The Prom plays like a manic episode of Glee, with its camera spinning around teen acrobats lit by oversaturated colored lights.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Mar 13, 2022

The Prom is something we really need right now, especially as this turbulent year is nearing its end. The spectacular cast does their best as singers, dancers, and actors. Even with a few hiccups, it provides a great time for the family.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 11, 2022

A large vat of overwrought taffy, with just as much nourishment. The only (dismayingly fleeting) saving grace is the charm of the central romance.

| Sep 13, 2021

It's frothy, light and silly, but in giving this issue the Hollywood treatment, it's polished the turd of homophobia so much that it seems glamorous in itself. It's a film with admirable intentions, but feels dated even on its first day of release.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

When the movie is over, you feel bad: bad that so much money was spent on the film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 29, 2021

It's a lot to balance and the balance is off.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 30, 2021

The Prom reflects its characters: full of good intentions but lacking in execution. Those just looking for a ridiculous couple of hours won't mind one bit, but for a story about such an important topic it's missing the impact that should be there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2021

...for a film supposedly about finding your identity, The Prom offers nothing but fifty flavours of sell-out...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 17, 2021

Like many a stage musical, the new musical film The Prom can be broken into two acts. And as with many a show that has graced stages from Broadway to London's West End, its first act is a lot more entertaining than its second.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2021

So why does the film fall short? The answer is overproduction and slickness.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 9, 2021