Dreamgirls
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76 out of 100

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7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 220 Ratings

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  • Starring: Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx
  • Summary: Twenty-five years after bringing Broadway audiences to their feet, the Tony Award-winning musical sensation Dreamgirls comes to the big screen. Set in the turbulent early 1960s to mid-70s, Dreamgirls follows the rise of a trio of women (Hudson, Knowles and Rose) who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes. (Paramount Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    100
    Dreamgirls is one of the best movie musicals in memory.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    80
    If there is a disappointment, it is this: The anticipation may have exceeded the realization. It's a damn good commercial movie, but it is not the film that will revive the musical or win over the world.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    60
    The problem with “Dreamgirls” -- and it is not a small one -- lies in those songs, which are not just musically and lyrically pedestrian, but historically and idiomatically disastrous.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    33
    It's the ultimate pop-culture sacrilege: a movie about soul music that has no soul.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 124
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 124
  3. Negative: 18 out of 124
  1. DeeR.
    10
    Loved it, loved it, loved it. trying to find dress or pattern for dress Jennifer wore when performing "I am Changing". Where?
  2. Redlight
    8
    I really loved it, even though it has sugarcoated what actually happened in real life and has an uber-happy ending that didn't occur in real life. In real life, Florence Ballard (who Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) represents) spent her last years living in poverty before she died of coronary thrombosis. also before the supremes achieved mega stardom, she was raped at knifepoint by a friend of her brother's. Tragic. Apparently, Diana Ross (who Deena Jones (Beyonce) obviously represents) offered her help financially but I don't know if there's anything concrete to suggest that being true.… Expand
  3. TonyB.
    7
    An only mediocre stage musical has been turned into a considerably better film.
  4. WilliamW.
    4
    The music and acting were good but the plot, script writing was terrible. I feel like I just wasted two hours of my life.

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