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Ryan Murphy's 'The Prom' Is Coming to Netflix - Read the Reviews!

The Guardian gives The Prom four out of five stars, writing: “The Prom is as corny as you like, and there is hardly a plot turn, transition or song-cue that can’t be guessed well in advance; but it’s so goofy that you just have to enjoy it, and there are some very funny lines.”

THR declares the movie is “bedazzled to within an inch of its life,” adding: “There’s something to be said for the wide reach of a Netflix feature that champions the rights of LGBTQ teens, sharing a message that’s easy to endorse even if the delivery tends to grate.”

The AV Club gave the movie a D+, writing: ” As a movie, The Prom is all-star, feel-good, zazzy nonsense. Long after Murphy’s film drops its cutesy cynicism, it still manages to accidentally produce a damning indictment of Broadway phoniness.”

Entertainment Weekly gave it a D, noting: “The Prom claims to celebrate courage, being true to oneself, standing up for what you believe in, blah blah blah. Those are all lovely ideas when presented with a bit of nuance or insight, but they’re undercut by the fact that the movie belongs not to the people with the painful problem, who actually overcome something difficult, but the quartet of invaders. There’s no people like show people, right? It’s hard to be moved by something so deeply self-congratulatory.”

Empire gave it three out of five stars, writing: “The Prom — with its ultra-stylish glossy aesthetic, penchant for high kitsch, legendary actresses chewing the scenery, and centring of LGBTQ+ narratives — ticks multiple boxes of the Murphy oeuvre, in an adaptation of Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin’s 2018 stage production. Every scene sparkles, each surface shimmers, and block-colours dominate the frame.”

The Telegraph gave the movie two out of five stars: “Time won’t be kind to The Prom: even the 131 minutes you spend watching it aren’t, particularly. You’ll wonder for long stretches what possessed Kidman, bless her, to tag along, filling the shoes of a sidekick in emerald sheath dresses who dreams of playing Roxie Hart in Chicago but has never got the call.”

Vanity Fair suggested James Corden should have been banned from the production, noting: “The core messages at the heart of The Prom are nice: gay acceptance, celebrating difference, loving thy neighbor, having a good time in the face of those who would tell you to do otherwise. There’s little sincerity to the way Murphy’s film presents those things, though. They’re marketing talking points rather than actual ideas made thoughtfully manifest in the texture of the film. And they’re undercut by Corden’s hack job, which contextualizes it all as cynical smarm more than earnest, necessary messaging.”

If you haven’t yet, check out the trailer for The Prom now.

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