The Prom
Netflix | Release Date: December 4, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
13
Negative:
5
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60
Screen RantRachel LaBonteDec 10, 2020
The Prom is a bright yet flawed musical extravaganza that, while holding a vital message about acceptance, sometimes gets lost in its own celebrity. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDec 9, 2020
I like the glitter. And I like The Prom in a general kind of way. It’s just not the show-stopper it might have been. Read full review
60
EmpireBen TravisDec 1, 2020
The Prom is a loud, proud glitter-ball of a film, and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. It stumbles in the second half and the relentless cheer is a little exhausting, but its energy and wit remains infectious. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyDec 23, 2020
The Prom, as it progresses from camp to earnest messaging, is like a sermon you believe, but still find too preachy. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 18, 2020
The stars are obviously having great fun in their roles, and we’re up for sharing it: Who doesn’t want to see a cast like this succeed? Yet the characters and situations are oversold from the opening scenes, and it’s not a problem of technique—these virtuosos can do anything that’s asked of them—but of directorial choice in a movie that still has one foot on a theater stage. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzDec 9, 2020
Netflix's The Prom is billed as a musical comedy because people sing in it while making funny faces, but beyond that, the relative levels of comedy and musicality ought to be subjects of debate. Read full review
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The PlaylistKyle TurnerDec 1, 2020
In Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation for Netflix, the show’s flaws seem accentuated, with its spectacle too mismanaged to distract that The Prom’s brand of sincerity isn’t necessarily tailored for the screen, or at least not in this form. Read full review
40
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 8, 2021
It may well be most amenable to the completely blotto. I made the grave mistake of seeing it sober, and 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.” Read full review
40
Film ThreatNorman GidneyDec 17, 2020
The real torpedo that sank this ship was that the source material wasn’t all that good, to begin with. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneDavid FearDec 10, 2020
This is what it looks like when you Glee a beloved Broadway production to death. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 10, 2020
The story unwinds with histrionics and homilies, jazz hands and twinkle toes, overly busy camerawork and hookless lung bursters. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDec 1, 2020
The starry casting and heavy hand of director Ryan Murphy do the featherweight material few favors, with inert dramatic scenes and overblown musical numbers contributing to the general bloat. The movie's most undeniable value is in the representation it provides to LGBTQ teens via a high school dance that is every emotionally isolated queer kid's rainbow dream. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 1, 2020
The whole thing drips with garish insincerity and preaching to the choir. Irony of ironies, that a show about out-of-touch luvvies swanning down to wave their magic wands at red-state intolerance has become… the spitting image of that, as a home cinema offering from Murphy and team. Read full review
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