The Great Gatsby Reviews

Movie Reviews

• this "Gatsby" has all the potential for being a train wreck that could make that anemic 1974 version with Robert Redford seem better than it was

  by Randy Myers [San Jose Mercury News ]

• the most entertaining "Gatsby" yet

  by Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]

• the actors are buried in the art direction, along with feeling. The film looks as stiff and lifeless as a posh store window

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• surprisingly satisfying (and text-faithful) as a dramatization of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's classic novel

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• overwrought, asinine, exaggerated and boring

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant distillation of the Jazz Age is still here. You just have to work your way through a heavy filter of special effects and in-your-face bells and whistles to find it

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• a hugely elaborate, well-cast adaptation of an American classic that will provoke every possible reaction

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a glitz-filled folly

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
• Review rate : B- Reviewed by Chris Nashawaty [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times ]
• Reviewed by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
• Reviewed by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
• Reviewed by Kenneth Turan [LA Times ]
• Reviewed by Scott Foundas [Variety ]
• Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times ]

Reader's Reviews

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