It’s easy to respect the ambition behind “The Greatest Showman,” an all-new, completely original movie musical based on the life of circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Coming from a first-time filmmaker — Australian music-video director Michael Gracey — the long-in-the-works film has been something of a passion project for star Hugh Jackman. The film’s an over-the-top, […]
Zac Efron
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Film Review: “We Are Your Friends”
An electronic tone poem of millennial angst set to a throbbing bassline, “We Are Your Friends” focuses on aspiring EDM artist Cole (Zac Efron) and his bros — Ollie (Shiloh Fernandez), Mason (Jonny Weston), and Squirrel (Alex Shaffer) — living it up in the San Fernando Valley, hoping to find their fortune. Though the story […]
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“At Any Price”
When we first meet Henry Whipple, the farmer and seed salesman played by Dennis Quaid in Ramin Bahrani’s “At Any Price,” he’s crashing a funeral with his reluctant son, Dean (Zac Efron), in tow, hoping to take some land off the hands of the dead man’s poor, bereaved family. It’s not the sort of introduction […]
