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The Great Gatsby
Aspiring writer Nick Carraway goes to New York City at the height of the Roaring Twenties and is drawn into the world of the super-rich and the mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan.
4 June 1975, Hastings, Victoria, Australia
30 November 1989, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
3 February 1976, Muscat, Oman
July 14, 2016
There's something dispiriting about a filmmaker who does his best to be utterly faithful to the words on the page, but doesn't seem to recognize what those words mean.June 14, 2016
Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby might not reach the dizzying heights of Fitzgerald's novel, but he gives it a damn good shot, old sport.June 12, 2013
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.March 30, 2016
The film's strength is its visual style and Luhrmann's daring high-wire act.May 10, 2013
The central problem with Luhrmann's film is that when it's entertaining it's not Gatsby, and when it's Gatsby it's not entertaining.September 22, 2013
Just because a film looks like it was dipped in 18-karat gold doesn't mean it's rich in qualityMay 10, 2013
The best attempt yet to capture the essence of the novel.May 15, 2013
There are no two ways about it: The Great Gatsby is misconceived and misjudged, a crude burlesque on what's probably American literature's most precious jewel.June 21, 2016
It's a headache-inducing mishmash of waving curtains, hyperactive fades, aggressive zooms, and Baz basically just throwing things at the lens (confetti, champagne, fabric, Tobey Maguire).July 15, 2015
Luhrmann is quite content to stay on the surface, to rub elbows with tuxedoed gents and bewitching flappers.January 03, 2014
For all the antic, manic itchiness of his Gatsby, for all the jazz hands, the movie doesn't reach out and grab you.April 12, 2016
It's not one spectacularly bad decision that sinks "The Great Gatsby," but a series of mediocre ones, leaving us with a film as forgettable as it is unnecessary.