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2013
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The Great Gatsby
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1.5
In Baz world, theres nothing illogical about mixing Jay Z with F. Scott Fitzgeralds cynical portrait of Jazz Age values. (
Av Club
1.5
From a sheer spectacle point, Baz Luhrmann nails The Great Gatsby.
Den Of Geek
4.5
For such a morally complex (or dead) story as Fitzgeralds, many will cry foul about this approach.
Den Of Geek
2.2
Luhrmann seems to relish the opportunity to explore the period while regarding the book as a burden.And yet, like Bay, Lurhmann has an undeniable abil ..
Indie Wire
4.0
This makes the films stronger elements buckle, while the on screen beauty shines through a hollow lens.
We Got This Covered
3.0
Baz Luhrmanns The Great Gatsby flirts with inspiration, but ultimately just goes to prove my longstanding point that slavish accuracy to source materi ..
We Got This Covered
2.0
Edgerton and Mulligan are terrific, and they scruff every other actor up by the neck to do good work when they share the frame.I counted one moment wh ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Arthur Newman is overwhelmed with arty ambitions and a heavy handed acting style.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Shorn of its quintessentially American roots, a biting tale of adult extravagance becomes insubstantially tween aged.
Time Out
4.5
As hes done in the past, Luhrmann isnt aiming to re create a period precisely rather, he wants to make a bustling, comic book exaggeration that amplif ..
Screen Daily
3.5
Luhrmann captures all this from inside a shimmering cocktail glass.
ETimes (TOI)
4.5
This isnt great art, but for Luhrmann, its easily the best thing hes ever done.
Collider
1.5
With The Great Gatsby, Luhrmann isnt adapting Fitzgerald as much as hes remaking Baz Luhrmann.
Collider
2.5
Its about the dream of doing things loud and fast and in grand style.
Vulture
3.2
Luhrmann also gets the social satire of the book and earns a lot of laughs, but in the end, it becomes all about the visuals.
Paste Magazine
3.1
Baz Luhrmanns adaptation of The Great Gatsby isnt a disaster.Every frame is sincere.
Rogerebert
3.9
Lurhmanns take on Gatsby is dazzlingly beautiful, dizzyingly fast paced, and may, like the novel, grow to be more appreciated with time.
IGN
3.0
Its not impossible to make a great movie out of material like this.
E Film Critic
2.0
The Great Gatsby may be a bad film but it is by no means a complete disaster and in a weird way, that may be its biggest failing.
E Film Critic
3.0
The party that ensues looks like the best one youve never been invited to, with champagne sneezing its way across the screen in great, fizzy arcs, dre ..
Telegraph
3.0
But Luhrmann perfectly understands his version of The Great Gatsby, and thats what really matters in this excessive, sentimental, extremely literal an ..
Cinema Blend
2.0
Still, for those willing to go with the champagne flow, this version has undeniable allure.
Ny Daily News
3.0
I like my movies bold and exciting, and even the prospect of watching 1920s flappers dancing to an anachronistic soundtrack by Jay Z didnt bother me.
JoBlo
4.0
Visually, Great Gatsby is once again a showcase of Luhrmanns wonderfully outlandish imagination and sharp technical precision.
Screen Rant
4.4
Which brings us, finally, to Luhrmanns film and to a delicious irony: Its a terrific adaptation that succeeds not only as a work of cinema but also, w ..
The Globe And Mail
2.5
But her Daisy is skin deep.And Maguires performance is callow and shallow.
Philly
3.5
His Gatsby is greedily gorgeous and occasionally sags, luxuriating in a 3D theatric too many.
3.5
And yet despite the spectacle for spectacles sake filmmaking philosophy and lack of interpretive depth the picture works on its own terms.
One Guys Opinion
3.8
The beating heart of the book, its aspirational Great Expectations ethos coveting wealth to recreate an imagined past and idealized future shines thro ..
Rogers Movie Nation
2.8
Unfortunately the director doesnt always allows that character study to shine and instead shoots for stylized gloss and camp to hammer home some unnec ..
Sover
2.2
10 1 4 / 10 Director Baz Luhrmann is not a miracle man, but hes successfully restored pluck to fatigued material with his unique brand of cinematic vo ..
Blu Ray
3.1
No one wants anything but a good time, even if those good times generally lead to bad times.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters snappy dialogue and their u ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
Its never entirely fair to put too much weight on a movie adaptation based on the source material, but with The Great Gatsby, one must allow an except ..
Mark Reviews Movies
2.5
The director has fashioned a gaudy long form music video all kaleidoscopic spectacle and little substance rather than a radiant new take on an America ..
Usa Today
3.5
I havent seen any of the other Gatsby adaptations, but it is safe to say none of them look as colorful and jazzy as this one. This one is like combini ..
Lariat
3.8
Its full of eye popping visuals, lush costumes and terrific soundtrack stunts.
News Review
3.5
Either way, my impression of this latest adaptation of the classic is it neither sinks nor sails majestically.
Screen It
1.3
There may be worse movies this summer than The Great Gatsby, but there wont be a more crushing disappointment.
Rolling Stone
1.0
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
4.0
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
2.5
Luhrmanns style of filmmaking demands a pre Actors Studio brand of screen acting, but this bunch is incapable of providing a level of brassy artificia ..
The Wrap
4.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsDirected by Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet), The Great Gatsby is adapted from the classic 1925 novel ..
View London
3.8
That slim but thematically tricky little volume remains a captivating riddle, which may be why no filmmaker has created the definitive version.
News Day
2.2
Fitzgeralds sensibility is delicately nuanced, but theres steel in his melancholy. With Luhrmann, everything, not just the parties but the intimate sc ..
Cs Monitor
3.5
The movie is gorgeous to watch if you enjoy this sort of spectacle, and occasionally Luhrmann embellishes some aspect of the novel, dare we say it, br ..
Film Journal
3.0
F. Scott Fitzgeralds brilliant distillation of the Jazz Age is still here.You just have to work your way through a heavy filter of special effects and ..
Az Central
5.0
I think this is simply brilliant filmmaking that takes its place on something like even footing with the story.The story is largely all there only enh ..
Mountain X
3.0
For all the filmmaking skill on display, this Great Gatsby often feels more like a conceptual exercise than a thought through take on the material.
Npr
2.5
Although the incurably exuberant Baz Luhrmann had the glitter factories and sequin mines working overtime, his glitzed up Gatsby is dishwater dull.
Star Tribune
2.0
F Scott Fitzgerald did more for Hollywood than it has done for him.After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, Crazy Sunday, abou ..
Guardian
1.0
It is unfortunate that this song and dance will be the picture carried in most heads of one of our literary gems.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.1
Probably, but thats how Luhrmann rolls, take it or leave it.It isnt hard to see why he would be drawn to a cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald ..
Q Network
2.0
Luhrmann does understand the book intellectually and brings out its themes.
Daily Mail
3.2
Its a dazzling time capsule of a shimmering era and a devastating look into the dark side of the American dream.
Ew
3.5
Many audiences will write The Great Gatsby off as style over substance, but I think Luhrmann supplies style along with great substance.
Cinema Crazed
3.5
Luhrmanns movie conveys meaning far more effectively when it has no story, no characters and virtually no text, and is all spectacle.
Salon
3.0
Many have tried and failed to dramatise the cerebral narrative of the book.
Flim List
2.0
If youre looking for something more restrained and believable this summer, Pacific Rim might be a better bet.
Empire
4.5
Even jokes of excess have a melancholic underpinning, so that the sight of a plate of carefully crafted fairy cakes is simultaneously funny and forlor ..
Eye For Film
3.5
Co written with Craig Pearce, Luhrmanns vividly intoxicating, 3 D version remains true to Fitzgeralds original concept, intricately exploring human na ..
Susang Ranger
1.3
That kind of direction would imply the kind of wisdom and insight Baz Luhrmann lacks.
Observer
4.0
For all its flaws, The Great Gatsby is a mind bending experience.
Common Sense Media
5.0
Will young audiences go for this movie, with its few good scenes and its discordant messiness
New Yorker
3.0
Forget about making a zombie movie version of The Great Gatsby..Its already here.
Boston Herald
3.5
Her anguish and girlish joy both register exquisitely, and even though the star crossed romance with Gatsby lacks weight, theres nothing off point abo ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Decadent prose is transformed into a decadent filmmaking style that defies modesty in the most brutal sense.
Slant Magazine
2.5
All of that makes perfect theoretical sense, but results in a film that is more performative than immersive, keeping the audience at a dreamlike, emot ..
Washington Post
4.0
There is a bustling, boundless energy to the film when sometimes all you want is a chance to stop and catch your breath.
Express
3.0
It was a canny move because, like many a blockbuster before it, the picture works most satisfactorily as a spectacle.
Express
2.5
Its party time!.Despite a few good ideas and the uniformly splendid production and costume designs by Luhrmanns mate and partner, Catherine Martin, th ..
Chicago Tribune
2.5
It is an occasionally inspired, more frequently not, novelty item that swamps its one star turn.
Reeling Reviews
2.0
You dont watch Baz Luhrmanns detonation of F Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby; you get beaten up by it
The Irish Times
5.3
But its no match for the novel, which creates a mystique all its own and dazzles the reader with its matchlessly graceful writing.Thats something that ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
Unfortunately, we are paying attention and thats what makes the whole experience even worse.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.8
The Great Gatsby is ultimately an epic tragedy, a parable about America, the American dream ethos and its consequences, but the movies overblown style ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
And Bollywood great Amitabh Bachchan memorably cameos as Meyer Wolfsheim.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
As unlikely as it might seem, high energy director Baz Luhrmann has in fact crafted a somnambulant motion picture.
ReelViews
3.5
The center holds amidst all the razzle dazzle and razzmatazz of Baz Luhrmanns endlessly extravagant screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgeralds imperish ..
Hollywood Reporter
2.5
And Carey Mulligan is a minor disaster as Daisy, though its hard to lay the blame at the actresss feet.
The Atlantic
4.8
Daisy knows of the affair, but has become accustomed the grand life and isnt ready to leave it.
Lyles Movie Files
2.0
The film is so full of actual glitter its like the worlds biggest Accessorize.
Standard
4.5
Adding to the fun is the 3 D which is among the best Ive seen so far.This shows life as it never was and never could be, but it is captivating.
Tony Medley
0.5
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Coles Mithey
2.0
If you believe that artifice is the new reality, that cliche is the way to approach truth, you will find a kindred spirit here.
Los Angeles Times
4.0
Indeed, it comes as little surprise that the Aussie auteur behind the gaudy, more is more spectacles Moulin Rouge and Australia has delivered a Gatsby ..
Variety
2.5
All of Luhrmanns Gatsby is absurdly over produced, most of it is supremely annoying, but much of it makes its own kind of sense as one audio visual in ..
Groucho Reviews
2.5
Its as if every bit of creativity dried up the moment the deal was signed. Yes, this is exactly what I would expect a Baz Luhrmann Gatsby would look l ..
Hit Fix
1.5
There are no two ways about it: The Great Gatsby is misconceived and misjudged, a crude burlesque on whats probably American literatures most precious ..
Cnn
3.1
Fitzgeralds book will be eternally beloved; the movie is moderately entertaining but nothing that will be embraced for decades to come.
Aisle Seat
0.0
The end result is as disastrous and pointless an adaptation as one can easily recall, and its ultimately impossible not to wonder just what Luhrmann o ..
Reel Film
2.5
Those two performances are have to be the center of the movie and DiCaprio and Mulligan dont disappoint.
Nj
2.5
He never tires of the crane shot, gazing down on the Jazz Age decadence of flappers, financiers and finaglers like a hungry seagull looking for an oys ..
The Star
1.3
The biggest blow to the exquisite prose is to present it without nuance.
Film Freak Central
3.8
Against the odds, it actually adds up to a satisfying, relevant take on one of the greatest of American tales.
Oregon Live
4.0
All the performances are effective, even if they are shrouded behind Lurhmanns hyper real dramatic style.
Deseret News
3.0
Visually, Gatsby is a spectacle of beauty with a myriad of beautiful people, exquisite settings, lavish locations and gorgeous costumes.
Urban Cine File
4.4
Indeed, it should be noted that the art direction alone is reason enough to drink in this gorgeous movie as pure 1920s era style porn.
Movies Tv Guide
3.0
While the film is not a total disaster, it fails in some ways.Its too long.
Maki At The Movies
2.5
Every frame is living cinematic art.Daisy ascending the grand staircase is a painting.
Varia Gate
3.0
So many shiny surfaces, spiralling staircases and fluttering curtains tempt you to reach and touch, but whatever youre trying to grasp remains tantali ..
Digital Spy
3.8
It is aggressively bold, taking the excesses and conspicuous consumptions of Fitzgeralds characters to their illogical ends.
Tamp A Bay
4.4
To me, this sight alone is worth the price of admission for a movie that may not be truly great but certainly stands out like a beacon in a sea of sil ..
New York Post
3.0
This is an ambitious, audacious adaptation of a classic piece of American literature, and you really want to love it.
Nz Herald
3.0
While it never stops calling attention to itself, its still a wonder to behold.
Flicks
2.5
The filmmaker is justified in looking for a contemporary connection.
Red Eye Chicago
4.4
The Great Gatsby is a sensory wonderland both intimate and vast as director Baz Luhrmann creates an immersive onscreen world that, for all of its bold ..
Dustin Put Man
4.0
All of this reveals the storys icy heart with remarkable clarity.
Contact Music
3.8
If youre able to make it through the first party scene at Gatsbys mansion, youll come out on the other side to find a film of surprising restraint and ..
Larsen On Film
3.5
But dont believe the hate.The Great Gatsby is not a terrible film; indeed, its a surprisingly affecting one.
Hollywood And Fine
3.1
It may be time for this much adapted novel to sit on the shelf for a while, until a time when it can be truly reinvented.The story has been told and r ..
Big Picture Big Sound
3.5
Perhaps audiences are tiring of animated features and superhero movies.
The Film Pie
2.5
The comedy could have been more irreverent and inspired, but instead it grows sillier and sillier.
Nyc Movie Guru
2.5
The movies flashiness proves diverting for a while, but once it settles down, all thats left is a group of unsympathetic, dull people.The lavish costu ..
Js Online
2.5
Baz Luhrmanns adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic smothers its subject matter in such a stylish manner that it loses the passion of its stor ..
Hollywood Chicago
2.5
Its not one spectacularly bad decision that sinks The Great Gatsby, but a series of mediocre ones, leaving us with a film as forgettable as it is unne ..
Cinemix Tape
2.5
Fine performances and stunning production design make it worth a look on video, but dont expect to take much from it.
ComingSoon
2.5
The entire cast delivers, but its tough for anyone to overshadow DiCaprio who wholly embraces the Gatsby charm and truly convinces you that youre in t ..
Shockya
2.5
The economy of Fitzgeralds storytelling is exchanged for something far less remarkable.
Film Comment
2.5
Luhrmann stays faithful to the themes, but remains as keen as ever to resort to cliche.
Sbs
3.5
What is it about F. Scott Fitzgeralds classic that makes it so impossible, so utterly untraslatable
Flavor Wire
2.5
Granted, this is nit picky stuff, yet Luhrmann might have taken inspiration from The Hunger Games, which transposed a highly personal, first person na ..
Daily Herald
3.0
Luhrmann basically invites us to the worlds greatest party, but its one that slowly sours over the course of the following two hours.At least James Ca ..
The Shiz Nit
3.5
Its the same as it ever was, but now its in 3D and designed to sell soundtracks.
Crave Online
3.0
It is a beautiful film, no question, but unfortunately for Luhrmann, there is something missing in the substance of the movie, so were left with an en ..
What Culture
3.8
Best of all, the songs never upstage the material and actors, only complement and further deepen the mood.
Mercury News
3.0
It oddly doesnt stop you having forgettable fun.Camp as Christmas, this is a case of you cant see the tree for the baubles but I was happy to watch th ..
Metro
2.0
The beat and throng of a playboys paradise in a colourful age of grand fashion and great music!
The Ooh Tray
3.0
See the movie for what it is: an exciting, visual celebration of love, life and longing.
Or Lando Weekly
4.0
Feels warm, extra terrestrial, and impossible... Whether one thinks it a folly or not, well never see another Great Gatsby like the one Baz Luhrmann h ..
Streaming Quickflix
2.5
This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote The Great Gatsby while living on Long Island and in Europe.
Wsj
3.0
Luhrmanns customary hyperactive visuals are the best hes ever made, an enormous panorama of antique postcard dreamscapes in 3D that actually works.
East Bay Express
2.0
Instead they let it expire.Baz Luhrmann is a cinematic Dutch sailor.
Tony Mack
2.5
With all the glitz and glamour of Luhrmanns style is stripped away, The Great Gatsby is not much more than a 1920s soap opera.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
Set during Americas economic boom of the 1920s, the action is cartoonish, the dialogue is almost devoid of nuance and the lavish parties appear dull d ..
Concrete Play Ground
2.0
Merely keeping things spectacular all the way might have sufficed.
Rediff
2.5
If no one comes to your funeral, old boy, you know you havent done much damage.
New Republic
3.0
Yet it is a fact that every cautionary tale must also be an invitation, truer than ever in tantalisingly visual cinema.
Bfi
2.0
This is a clear case of a films subtext (money cant buy you everything) being undermined by the message of its own style (yes it can).What makes The G ..
New States Man
2.5
I dont see a contemporary story as Luhrmann strived for; I see a classic with tattered edges.
Review Express
4.4
Making your film feel more modern to appeal to a narrow demographic of filmgoers doesnt make you a visionary.
Cinema Sight
3.5
This is not so much the Jazz Age, or even the Pizzazz Age, as the Razzle Dazzle Baz Age.
Entertainment Time
3.0
For some reason every time someone mentions Gatsbys name for the first time someone else has to say it questioningly, which to me sounds like a perfec ..
Media Mikes
5.0
For all the antic, manic itchiness of his Gatsby, for all the jazz hands, the movie doesnt reach out and grab you.
Grant Land
3.0
All four of those elements of the story are on full display here, but theres something missing in the execution.For a story with so much passion and l ..
Blog Bullz Eye
2.5
Though every frame overflows with opulence, it stumbles in its quest to be an edgy and thoroughly modern spectacle.
Us Magazine
4.5
However, judging from the film alone, this is an entertaining thrill ride and a great start to the summer movie season.
Johnhanlon Reviews
2.0
Its ambitious, its not a complete failure but the excess is excessive and the depth is in the 3D visuals more than its in the plot.
Graffiti With Punctuation
2.5
Fitzgeralds tale of big dreams and broken lives, lies, and love, and the assortment of despicable people caught up in it all, works well enough on its ..
Toledo Blade
5.0
Edgerton has the crass arrogance of old money and Debicki the charm and exotic looks for a person of limited purpose and morals.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
2.5
It feels like the actors are just Acting So Hard youd think with the 3D youd see their Acting Ness coming right at you.
Need Coffee
3.0
Stronger on spectacle than sentiment, Lurhrmanns ambitious visuals may be delivered at the expense of the books emotional core yet he never completely ..
Sky
2.0
It will be deemed a turkey, although it is actually a turduckenthere wasnt room to stuff in any more cinematic motifs.
Metro Active
2.5
I recommend you see this picture in 2D to experience the full spectrum of Luhrmanns photography.
Free Beacon
2.5
What Baz fails to cement is genuine purpose for his filmic style and the very reasoning for filming this story again.
Impulse Gamer
3.5
Theres no denying that Baz Luhrmann, the director responsible for previous colorful exercises in anachronism like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, has ..
World Wng
4.5
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Richard Roeper
3.0
Right away, you see the genius of Luhrman and also the fears one might have with his telling of this classic novel: style over substance.
Schmoes Know
3.1
The movie is already gorgeous, but its a kind of beauty that doesnt stick around after youve left the story.
Ut Sandiego
1.9
If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, its The Great Gatsby.
Ut Sandiego
3.0
It suffers mostly as a result of the viewers struggle to invest emotionally in this tale, and given the grand finale that exists, its such a frustrati ..
Hey U Guys
3.0
From the looming, golden art deco titles that initially draw us into the story, one knows that the boundlessly aesthetic eye of Baz Luhrmann will make ..
The Diva Review
4.1
That story is damn enjoyable, and if you take away the argument over whether the film insults its source youll find yourself watching a damn enjoyable ..
Flixist
3.5
Baz Luhrmanns attempt to transform F Scott Fitzgeralds seminal 1925 American novel into a crowd pleasing spectacle film is admirable if not always suc ..
Cinema Autopsy
3.0
Far less effective is Luhrmanns extensive reliance on greenscreening and CG work.It looks terrible.
Standard Net Au
3.0
Its not literature exactly, but its visual style that passes for it.
O Canada
3.5
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The Nation
3.0
It puts the roar in the roaring twenties and Luhrmann delivers the rambunctious visuals brilliantly.
The Popcorn Junkie
3.0
Its a scherzo and not an andante; and while that move gives the material a fresh look, it also spoils the inherent appeal and deep sadness that reader ..
Bangkok Post
2.5
Luhrmanns movie is neither a deluxe entertainment that stands on its own as a pop phantasmagoria nor an adaptation that captures the essence of a mast ..
Oc Register
2.5
His movies are loaded with amazing visuals and sumptuous locales that nevertheless feel a little lacking emotionally.The Great Gatsby knocks it out of ..
Blogs Houston Press
3.1
For all of the impossible, succulent beauty Luhrmann shows us, the film doesnt thoroughly cultivate the emotional foundation it needs to prop up such ..
M Live
1.5
An impenetrable folly of gaudy excess and crass emoting, the films only achievement beyond the technical prowess of its staging is in highlighting the ..
Screen Space(Squarespace)
2.5
Performances are strictly average, but you cant really blame the cast for looking so morose and sounding out of breath at times.
Dna India
2.8
NEW YORK (AP) Without stretching, New York Giants offensive lineman Chad Wheeler folds his 6 foot 7, 317 pound frame over far enough to place his palm ..
The Monitor
4.0
These are all lost and empty characters and Luhrmanns style perfectly complements Fitzgeralds cynical view of the whole charade.Certainly people will ..
Fox News
3.8
This is especially inspired musically; its virtually impossible now to really evoke the danger and decadence of the so called Jazz Age with era approp ..
The Movie Report
3.0
Its shallow and vapid storytelling wielded with the precision of a Neanderthals club.
Cines Nark
0.6
The 3D is pointless and phony.The acting is phony as almost every actor sounds like a parody of a 1920s movie.
Dc5
3.0
And for sheer spectacle, to drop Gatsbys favorite expression, this fancy, flamboyantly embellished version of that familiar tale is quite the show, ol ..
American Profile
3.0
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Jo Reviews
3.8
Its a quiet story about moral decay and fatigue, and the loss of a dream.
Womens Voices For Change
2.8
It almost seems as if the director is priming the pump for the inevitable Broadway musical.
Events Austin 360
2.5
Adapting Gatsby just so you can recreate the party scenes is like remaking Born on the Fourth of July for the war scenes. Luhrmann has a knack for mis ..
Deads
3.5
The films strength is its visual style and Luhrmanns daring high wire act.
Family Home Theater
4.0
But, ultimately, its the characters and the story that grab the attention.
Patheos
1.5
Its a gorgeous, thought provoking movie that rewards long after its over.
Windy City Media Group
2.0
It may sound like a strange comparison, but the film that Gatsby reminded me of the most is Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers.
The Crat
4.2
If nothing else, his invigorating vision of the literary classic should go over great in high school classrooms after it is released on DVD, maybe eve ..
Movie Dearest Blog Spot
3.8
However, it is a distinctive vision that deserves to be seen for all of its glorious faults and grand ambition.
News Gazette
5.0
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Kam Williams
2.5
Maguire open mouth stupefaction dominates, Mulligan is miscast, and DiCaprio does his best to save his dignity.
Las Vegas Informer
3.5
Polley is a generous (if tenacious) director.No one comes off looking bad.
Bloom Berg
2.8
I spent the first 40 minutes of the movie laughing almost nonstop.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
2.5
After Moulin Rouge and Marie Antoinette, it feels a little old hat, really, and one cant help but how a film with its tone rooted in African American ..
Madison Movie
1.9
Not only is the book better than the movie, but in this case that stupid fake video game I mentioned earlier probably would be, too.
Co Ed
3.5
Luhrmanns Great Gatsby embraces this notion as a reflection of its central character, and in this sense at least it is near on perfect.
Clothes Onfilm
2.5
The bar is very low.The book has been made into three feature films, including a 1926 silent film regrettably lost, and one TV movie.
Altfg
3.8
The films greatest departure is not from the story, but from the framework.
Planit North West
3.0
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