→ 'The Great Gatsby' Review: How Many Flappers Make a Flop?

“Baz Luhrmann sucks the life out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s immortal novel and replaces it with empty filigree and overbearing style…The cardinal sin of this new “Gatsby” is that it’s dull, and say what you will about

Luhrmann’s previous movies, that’s not an adjective that usually comes up. Here, sadly,

you can hear the wheels of the plot grinding as loudly as Gatsby’s custom Duesenberg.”

Buck and Bubbles… Varsity Show (1937) (by Kendrick Jones)