None of this is to say that The Prom didn't have me, a sap, crying by the end. But it also proves that, no matter how hard notable celebs try bathed in neon light, sometimes a glitzy film can't match the thrill of live theater.

| Dec 15, 2020

There's too much of Corden to ignore in The Prom, but there isn't much to like.

| Dec 15, 2020

There were moments when I simply lost my courage and had to look away, as some people do during the tooth-drilling scene in "Marathon Man."

| Dec 13, 2020

The Prom takes giant leaps (literally and metaphorically) in its story progression without earning it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 12, 2020

"The Prom" works hard to be a good time, and I hope it is for many who could use one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2020

The jokes land, the cast is superb, the score is still charming, and fans of the show will have little to complain about.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2020

"The Prom" aims to please, and simply won't stop until you throw up jazz hands in submission. Just try to resist.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 11, 2020

A mixture of heartfelt melodrama and schlocky, treacle-ridden nonsense, this movie both gave me a headache while it also produced a couple of honest tears.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 11, 2020

Those who have so far remained unconvinced by Murphy's body of work won't find much here to make them reconsider, but on the whole this is a joyous, and beautifully executed musical which does exactly what it is expected from it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2020

"The Prom" is 20 percent sly satire and 80 percent love letter to the craziness that goes into entertaining audienc es.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 11, 2020

Welcome to the glitzy, winsome, wonderfully ridiculous world of Ryan Murphy's The Prom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2020

A valentine to theater coupled with an overt message about LGBTQ acceptance and inclusion. All of that comes wrapped in a big neon bow, a joyous holiday gift for fans of musical theater, made by people who love the medium every bit as much as they do.

| Dec 10, 2020

I kept gawping at this prom, with its grisly, charmless show-tunes and crash-bang choreography, and thinking: where's Carrie and her bucket of blood when you need them?

| Dec 10, 2020

My prom was OK but I had hoped it would be more fun. So, too, with "The Prom."

| Dec 10, 2020

"The Prom" glimmers and pops with glitz and it's an awful lot of fun, even when it lags.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2020

The story unwinds with histrionics and homilies, jazz hands and twinkle toes, overly busy camerawork and hookless lung bursters.

| Dec 10, 2020

A toothless satire of celebrity self-righteousness that occasionally falls into its own trap.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 10, 2020

Screamingly extroverted, shamelessly indulgent and as shiny and artificial as a set of dental veneers, Ryan Murphy's The Prom is a big, hammy exhibitionist of a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2020

This is what it looks like when you Glee a beloved Broadway production to death.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2020

The material, wildly uneven in quality, went to work on my inner sap, even as my outer sap kept inching the chair further from the screen, to better approximate 8th row, orchestra section.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 9, 2020