Some will highly enjoy the glamorous favoritism towards the Gatsby character that Luhrmann leans. Others will miss the enigmatic mystery the character possessed all the way until his final moments on the page and his resonance afterwards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2024

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby is passionate and perfectly cast...

| Original Score: A | Aug 20, 2024

Extravagant and “modern”, the classic book adaptation is flawed, but its production design still wows, and DiCaprio’s mysterious turns inject much needed emotion and “substance”... the film is not saved by Luhrmann – it is saved in spite of him.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

It is too painful even to imagine the havoc a director as M온라인카지노추천-flashy and hollow as BL wrought on poor Fitzgerald, the literary hero of my teenage years...

| Apr 1, 2024

The Great Gatsby lacks the charm and the nostalgia of musicals such as High Society, An American in Paris, and Singin’ in the Rain. Ehrlich claims Luhrmann is trying to reinvent the present, but it doesn’t feel like that way.

| Nov 10, 2023

Flappers and fops, speakeasies and saps get the Baz Luhrmann movie-musical mash-up treatment in this 2013 visually arresting take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-loved 1925 novel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2023

Lurhmann’s over-the-top and certainly overwrought approach may be refreshingly unconventional to some, but it fails to achieve Nick’s crucial observer status as “within and without” by delighting far too much in the billowing decadence of the setting

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 6, 2022

Baz Luhrmann may be trying to capture the vivacity of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel through his visual style, but I think the story itself retains plenty of that for my taste.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

[Luhrmann] pushes style to the brink and even crosses the line of excess at times, but it's all in service of selling the film's exploration of the gilded false happiness that the achieved American Dream brings.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 11, 2022

This divisive adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel is at the very least delicious to look at, with the infamous parties that drive the novel depicted in all their extravagance and glory by Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann.

| Nov 11, 2021

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is a failure. It's a poor adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's powerful text and it's tragic that such a great novel has been bastardised, becoming a flashy, CGI blockbuster.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 17, 2021

The Australian director brings to the material a largely crude and cartoonish approach. He appears to suffer from an almost fatal literal-mindedness.

| Feb 12, 2021

The film does nothing to beat against the current. There's no lesson that all this 1920s extravagance is problematic. The message is to party like a rock star and dress like a robber baron - just don't waste all your money chasing a woman who waffles.

| Jan 15, 2021

The lead trio of DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire keep proceedings grounded by applying a sincere emotional gravity to their performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2020

The film, which is still vastly superior to the 1974 Robert Redford version, is emotionally adrift yet visually arresting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

When [Luhrmann] steps back from the world-building and focuses on the intimate love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy, and Buchanan, that's where everything comes to a screeching halt.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 27, 2020

When it comes to translating a classic novel, more could have been done here. A lot less could have been done, at the same time.

| Jul 17, 2020

For all the gimmicks, flamboyant celebrations, and intrusive modern flourishes, the film is loud and boisterous, but ultimately empty. Gazing at the spectacle, you can't help but think it will eventually all add up to something, but it never does.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 9, 2020

Director Baz Luhrmann makes 'The Great Gatsby' the ultimate adaptation of Fitzgerald's work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

[It] allows a modern audience to see Leo's stylized Gatsby as more than a petulant nouveau riche interloper, to grasp that Gatsby is at heart a story of class warfare, disguised as a doomed love affair.

| Jun 19, 2020