
From left to right: Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton star in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’.
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce’s gaudy adaptation of The Great Gatsby hits all the high points but plumbs few of the depths of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel. It’s a cartoon take on the classic novel of one man’s with the American dream during the Roaring Twenties, and much like its characters it indulges in a glut of glamour but has no real soul.
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