Critics' reviews for Baz Lurhman's The Great Gatsby are simply not that great. It's the fourth big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel which follows would be writer Nick Carraway as he's drawn into Jay Gatsby's lavish circle becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy. The latest version stars Leonardo DiCaprio Tobey Maguire Carey Mulligan Isla Fisher Joel Edgerton and Jason Clarke.
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The Great Gatsby premieres in N.Y.An estimated $100 million was poured into the latest vision and although critics have praised DiCaprio's performance many reviewers think the movie fails to grasp the ultimate vision of the book. U.S. News and World Report notes the film falls short trying to serve both the Fitzgerald original and its filmmaker's aesthetic.
The New York Times points out that it's 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.
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DiCaprio Mulligan Maguire talk The Great GatsbyStill DiCaprio has been described as persuasive and magnificent in his role as the mysterious millionaire.
The first film adaptation of The Great Gatsby came in 1926 as a silent movie. It has since been lost and only a trailer remains. In 1946 another feature came out starring Alan Ladd Betty Field and Shelley Winters. And in 1976 Sam Waterston took on the role of Carraway with Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan and Robert Redford as Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby of 2013 has a 46 percent rating on film aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Read on to see what some of the top critics have to say about it
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald who wrote 'The Great Gatsby' while living on Long Island and in Europe. In a deviation from the book that amounts to a calumny against literary history Nick the author's surrogate is discovered in a psychiatric hospital where as an aging alcoholic he struggles to comprehend the vanished figure at the center of the long ago story and finally completes his treatment by writing the novel. It's literature as therapy and Gatsby as Rosebud.
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Summer movies 2013Rafer Guzman of Newsday gave it 3 out of 4 stars noting The fourth adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel scores some hits and wild misses but DiCaprio nails the bull's eye. He is Gatsby though Gatsby has yet to be made.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter The cast is first rate the ambiance and story provide a measure of intoxication and most importantly the core thematic concerns pertaining to the American dream self reinvention and love lost regained and lost again are tenaciously addressed.
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Baz Luhrmann and wife talk Gatsby movie and loveAnn Hornaday of the Washington Post Despite timely relevance enduring truths and Luhrmann's earnest efforts to make 'The Great Gatsby' jump off the screen he and we finally can't help but fail to grasp it.
David Edelstein of New York magazine The best thing about Baz Luhrmann's much anticipated/much dreaded The Great Gatsby is that for all its computer generated whoosh and overbroad acting it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.' That is no small deal.
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DiCaprio talks Great Gatsby at world premiereConnie Ogle of the Miami Herald Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' is a failure that should have at least been a magnificent mistake a risky endeavor that showed a daring intent even if its brash vision didn't quite succeed. Instead the movie leaves you cold and weary and vaguely disgusted like you've just spent a night of debauchery at Gatsby's mansion and now the sun is up and it's time to fish the cigarette butts and champagne bottles out of the pool.
Mike Bertha of the Philadelphia Inquirer Here I am disappointed with Luhrmann's film in part because I refused to quell my own anticipation. But also because the latest interpretation of Gatsby seemed to distort the values fans of the story hold so dearly.
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