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The Great Gatsby

2013

Baz Luhrmann

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton ...

6.2

45,523

Drama. Romance New York, in the 20s. Midwesterner Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves to NYC to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the swanky West Egg district of Long Island. There Nick is lured into the lavish world of his rich neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and gets caught up in his world of extravagant parties and people. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Love it or hate it [Luhrmann] (...) this is unmistakably his 'Gatsby' through and through, and as with all such carte-blanche extravaganzas (...) it exudes an undeniable fascination — at least for a while"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There may be worse movies this summer than 'The Great Gatsby', but there won't be a more crushing disappointment (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A hugely elaborate, well-cast adaptation of an American classic that will provoke every possible reaction. (...) the core thematic concerns pertaining to the American dream, self-reinvention and love (...) are tenaciously addressed"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Baz Luhrmann’s 'The Great Gatsby' is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less (...) rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Time Out	"This bombastic superproduction is (...) bluntly effective as melodrama, vividly colorful in its stereoscopic grandeur (...) You just have to accept that the themes undergirding Fitzgerald’s precise prose (...) have been squashed by overproduced spectacle (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"Luhrmann's vulgarity is designed to win over the young audience, and it suggests that he's less a filmmaker than a music-video director with endless resources and a stunning absence of taste"	NEG
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"I love the publicity quotes by Baz Luhrmann stating that his intention was to make an epic romantic vision that is enormous. Also: overwrought, asinine, exaggerated and boring. But in the end, about as romantic as a pet rock (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Baz Luhrmann (...) doesn't use the novel as a mere pretext for his own visual invention, but genuinely tries to capture the Fitzgeraldian spirit, and for the most part, despite some vulgar lapses, he succeeds"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Leonardo DiCaprio — magnificent is the only word to describe this performance — the best movie Gatsby by far (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Childlike, fetishistic and painfully literal, Luhrmann’s experiment proves once again that it’s Fitzgerald’s writing (...) that has always made 'Gatsby' great (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Despite a few good ideas and the uniformly splendid production and costume designs by Luhrmann's mate and partner, Catherine Martin, this frenzied adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby' is all look and no feel (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"So much effort seems to have gone into the eye-popping production design, swooping camera work and anachronistic musical score that the result is hyper-active cacophony rather than enthralling entertainment (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"A tale told idiotically, full of noise and furor, signifying next to nothing. (...) It's a spectacle in search of a soul"	NEG

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