The Great Gatsby 2013

The Great Gatsby

Critics Consensus

While certainly ambitious -- and every bit as visually dazzling as one might expect -- Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby emphasizes visual splendor at the expense of its source material's vibrant heart.

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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

A scene from "The Great Gatsby."

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Jason Clarke as George Wilson in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Elizabeth Debicki (left) as Jordan Baker in "The Great Gatsby."

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

A scene from "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Jason Clarke as George Wilson, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson and Jason Clarke as George Wilson in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker in "The Great Gatsby."

Tobey Maguire (center) as Nick Carraway in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby."

(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby."

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Movie Info

Midwest native Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) arrives in 1922 New York in search of the American dream. Nick, a would-be writer, moves in next-door to millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and across the bay from his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her philandering husband, Tom (Joel Edgerton). Thus, Nick becomes drawn into the captivating world of the wealthy and -- as he bears witness to their illusions and deceits -- pens a tale of impossible love, dreams, and tragedy.

Rating:

PG-13 (Partying|Brief Language|Sexual Content|Smoking|Some Violent Images)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Baz Luhrmann
Producer:

Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Catherine Knapman
Writer:

Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Release Date (Theaters):

May 10, 2013 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 14, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA):

$144.8M
Runtime:

2h 22m
Production Co:

Bazmark Films, Red Wagon Entertainment
Sound Mix:

SDDS, Dolby Digital, Datasat

Cast & Crew

Leonardo DiCaprio
Jay Gatsby

Tobey Maguire
Nick Carraway

Carey Mulligan
Daisy Buchanan

Joel Edgerton
Tom Buchanan

Isla Fisher
Myrtle Wilson

Jason Clarke
George Wilson

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Critic Reviews for The Great Gatsby

All Critics (298) | Top Critics (57) | Fresh (143) | Rotten (155)

For all the antic, manic itchiness of his Gatsby, for all the jazz hands, the movie doesn't reach out and grab you.

January 3, 2014 | Full Review…

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

September 22, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Mara Reinstein
Us Weekly
Top Critic
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.

June 12, 2013 | Full Review…

David Thomson
The New Republic
Top Critic
Luhrmann understandably wants his Gatsby to be great, but he has inadvertently reminded us that the Great American Novel belongs precisely where it was born: on the page.

May 23, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Ed Gibbs
The Age (Australia)
Top Critic
The problem is that in such a raucous adaptation, the cast can only act coarsely, too.

May 16, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

David Sexton
London Evening Standard
Top Critic
For much of its length, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby has the terrible endlessness of films where everything is too short. We are jabbed with effect after effect, in our faces and up our noses in 3D

May 16, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

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

September 11, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
The film, which is still vastly superior to the 1974 Robert Redford version, is emotionally adrift yet visually arresting.

September 9, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
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.

July 27, 2020 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Allen Almachar
The MacGuffin
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.

July 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Damond Fudge
KCCI (Des Moines, IA)
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.

July 9, 2020 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Brent McKnight
The Last Thing I See
Director Baz Luhrmann makes The Great Gatsby the ultimate adaptation of Fitzgerald's work. [Full review in Spanish]

June 25, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Yasser Medina
Cinemaficionados

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Audience Reviews for The Great Gatsby

Feb 28, 2016

I really enjoyed the visual aspect of this movie. The acting was also very good.

Erin C Super Reviewer
Nov 16, 2015

I was thoroughly unimpressed in more ways than one with Baz Lurhmann's take on one of the nation's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Considering Lurhmann has had moderate success with Moulin Rouge! and Romeo & Juliet (where he worked with DiCaprio before) it's disappointing how this adaptation could fall so flat with such powerful stars. While the movie sticks to the source material for the most part, I didn't need the narration from Tobey Maguire the entire time like I was actually reading the book. First, I have never been completely sold on Maguire. I don't think he's a bad actor, but he didn't give any characterization to Nick Carraway. The same goes for most of the actors in this film, including DiCaprio. Nobody's performance deserves any special attention because it felt so cookie-cutter that you might have thought the actors were only showing emotion because of the punctuation on the script they were reading. I know this was a few years ago, but Leo was coming off some of his best movies, and then this interrupted one of the better strings of successful movies for him. Carey Mulligan is always a delight on screen, but other than crying, sobbing or appearing confused, there wasn't much else for her to do. Nothing came together for me while I was watching. Scenes cut in and out of flashbacks. Editing was abysmal. Continuity between scenes was a joke. What was the deal with trying to fuse current music into a movie based in the 1920s? None of it felt right. It was pretty much watching an audio book on screen with all the narration we were drug through and when we finally had a chance to watch what was happening on screen without listening to someone tell us about it, the scenes were filled with awkward pauses and stilted dialogue. Even though Luhrmann stayed faithful to the material, never at any point did I believe it was on par with the magic I read back in high school from Fitzgerald.

Lane Z Super Reviewer
Jul 09, 2014

Baz Luhrman's signature style works wonderfully with the source material, capturing the eclectic energy of Fitzgerald's masterpiece without sacrificing the tender emotion and depth of character that made the book so wonderful.

Isaac H Super Reviewer
May 25, 2014

From an insane asylum (wait, what?), Nick Carraway narrates the story of a socialite's attempts to woo his long-lost love. Baz Luhrmann's lavish style, quick cuts, garish colors, and modern screaming, drum-heavy music attempt to capture the roar of the Roaring Twenties. It's a valiant attempt, and I like when it succeeds and don't get too angry when the style rudely overtakes the story. It's mostly faithful to the source material except for a few glaring dissimilarities that make me wonder if the filmmakers simply felt the need to stamp the story with their spin. Leonardo DiCaprio is good as Gatsby, capturing the lavishness of his excess and the vulnerability of relationship with Daisy, and Tobey Maguire is fine as literature's most famous witness; although, Maguire isn't allowed to express the appropriate moral outrage at the end of the film. Likewise, the script doesn't give enough to Carey Mulligan to expose Daisy's depth. Overall, it's a fair attempt, but Luhrmann's luridness is often misplaced.

Jim H Super Reviewer

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The Great Gatsby Quotes

Jay Gatsby:

I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her. So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go.

Myrtle Wilson:

I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her... So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go.

Jay Gatsby:

like old sport having you ever seem it before its all a custom job super charge engine.

Nick Carraway:

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.

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