Luhrmann seems less interested in accurately depicting Australia’s ugly past than in creating a national myth.
At its best, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis taps into the frenzy that the King ignited in the world.
This production’s pacing is more deliberate than that of the film, leaving the characters with more room to breathe.
Too much of the Netflix series feels dictated by the setup and pay-off rules of popular storytelling.
It’s still no Drag Race, but the contest for costume design just got a little bit more interesting over the weekend.
“Young and Beautiful” might be the very best thing to have emerged from Luhrmann’s epic undertaking.
The hollow dazzle of Strictly Ballroom looks bold and sounds great thanks to Lionsgate’s strong transfer and packaging.
Graciously and appropriately, Luhrmann eventually lets his gung-ho predilections simmer down.
Decadent prose is transformed into a decadent filmmaking style that defies modesty in the most brutal sense.
The soundtrack co-opts the musical filigrees of the jazz age and the cultural vitality of both hip-hop and house into an acid bath of EDM with all the panache of an energy drinktini.
However enticing the movie itself may be, the commercialism of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby has been oppressive, to say the least.
It ain’t the nostalgia the repeat offenders at Concept Arts were going for.
Essential viewing, if not only for its edutainment factor, but for the dynamism and felt resonance of its maker’s bounding enthusiasms.
How to sell a Keira Knightley period romance and still distinguish it from every other Keira Knightley period romance?
The most audacious thing about writer-director Peter Rodger’s Oh My God may be its appallingly bad taste.
Australia is corny, implausible, well intentioned, and even somewhat enjoyable in its own way, at least for a while.
Lagerfeld Confidential lives up to its title by keeping its central topic top secret.
Perhaps the caliber of this film can be measured by the extent to which one clings to hope that Romeo and Juliet aren’t really doomed.
This special edition DVD will be priceless to Luhrmann fans while viewers just discovering the director’s madness.
Since the film’s features are as bloated as the film itself, I’d say the DVD makers did the film justice.