The Great Gatsby Reviews

Just because a film looks like it was dipped in 18-karat gold doesn't mean it's rich in quality

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Many audiences will write [this] off as style over substance, but I think [director] Luhrmann supplies style along with great substance.

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The Great Gatsby is a visual treat & one worth the 3D surcharge, but feels like a lopsided endeavor that captures the style & energy, but not exactly the heart & soul

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Boils down to its essence of pure feeling, in every sense--from literal stimulus and sensation to the emotions, in all their seething, loving, consuming, destructive passions, that drive the characters and their actions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Alternately intriguing and infuriating: it's very like the sort of movie exuberantly excessive Gatsby himself might have made.

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This is kitsch at such a deep level it doesn't even seem to be aware that it's kitsch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Almost 100 percent faithful to the novel in terms of plot, and almost zero percent faithful in terms of theme, character, and impact.

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This take, pimped out in 3D spectacle and one woozy romance, renders the '20s as backdrop and swerves around the book's period-politics. A surreal slice-of-a-1922-summer overbaked into maximalist fantasia. The narrative frame is silly; the pacing is off.

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An ambitious, multi-colored triumph, this film will be hard to forget.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

The Great Gatsby is Baz Luhrman's visual tribute album to the novel; and it's only in his filmmaking comfort zones that any of the essence of the text elevates beyond karaoke.

Full Review | Original Score: 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 missing the point.

Full Review | Original Score: C

...as disastrous and pointless an adaptation as one can easily recall...

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

A stunning recreation of 1920's New York that sticks as close to its source material as it can while delivering an engaging adaptation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

If Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic is the Great American Novel, then this frantically jazzed-up 3D film is the pop-up-book version.

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Though it is quite possible that the neutered feel of Luhrmann's Gatsby is entirely due to studio meddling, the finished product isn't enjoyable, either as campy fun or a serious attempt at dismantling the American dream.

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For some reason every time someone mentions Gatsby's name for the first time someone else has to say it questioningly, which to me sounds like a perfect condition for a drinking game

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

... offers some brilliant moments before turning into another case of self-indulgent sensory overload.

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It's stupefying, it's vulgar, it's demeaning-it's dull and there's nothing like the dullness that is trying to be a sensation.

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Se esta adaptação de Luhrmann funciona melhor dramaticamente que as tentativas anteriores, isto se deve à sua capacidade de humanizar o personagem-título sem desvendá-lo completamente.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Without Nick to articulate the decline, The Great Gatsby is reduced to little more than a love triangle between the remotely rich.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5