1. I think that the performances and also the kind of relaxed style of direction kind of make this watchable.
2. Mulligan adds so much with such problematic material she astonishes.
3. Overwritten and indifferently directed by first-timer Shana Feste, this bloated TV-movie-of-the-week is more grate than great.
4. Although The Greatest is a histrionic mess, at least it looks clean.
5. What begins as an extreme portrait in grief develops into a moving account of a family coming to terms with loss.
6. The Greatest includes a great performance and a very good one at the center of vagueness and confusion.
7. [Mulligan's] charming performance overcomes the character's clichés and in the process affirms her burgeoning talent.
8. It's earnest and grueling and gently contrived, and it lets several good performers play at repressing their feelings before letting them rip in jagged arias of Acting. I wanted to like the movie more than I did; your mileage may vary.
9. There's some good acting and a few nice moments. But far from being The Greatest, the movie itself is merely middling.
10. Do not mistake The Greatest for a movie about Muhammad Ali. And do not think its ambitious title indicates its overall quality.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
It's burdened by a predictable, overly melodramatic story, but The Greatest benefits from strong performances by its talented cast.