Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby is essentially everything you would expect Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby to be. It is rich with spectacle and kinetic emotion, lushly beautiful, soaked with gleaming ...

Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg. And the new musical about them that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre lays a big egg. It’s debatable whether one of American ...

Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway. Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened ...

It would be fun not to know that Baz Luhrmann’s new movie is an adaptation, not to have read the book that it’s an adaptation of, not to bother comparing the movie to its source or evaluating its ...

Director: Baz Luhrmann; Screenwriters: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce; Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Isla ...

One expects to find novels like this on the shelves of a dream library, where all the great books that were never written reside — a tempting what could've been but wasn't. Fortunately for us, The ...

In doing so, they’ve made a devilish bargain, trading the novel’s soul for flashy visuals — and it almost even works. The design team here has pulled out all the stops and achieved something nearly ...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan star in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. By Todd McCarthy While secondary characters wore the majority of Prada’s designs ...

As high schoolers, we were subjected to The Great Gatsby in our academic curriculums. I have to say, The Great Gatsby is not one of my favorite books. Its one of the few times in my life I resorted to ...

Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" isn't my "Gatsby," and it probably isn't yours. Nor is it some definitive cinematic "Gatsby" that will stand the test of time. In 25 years, much of it will look dated ...

It is often said that great books make for inferior films and vice versa, but there is something particular about “Gatsby” that seems to defy the screen. Transformed into voiceover, the running ...