- “Slick. That’s the best thing you can say about the style of Baz Luhrmann’s “Great Gatsby.” It has the sleekness of an Art Deco skyscraper, a fast car or, as Cecil Beaton reminded me, Daisy Fellowes’s head. I actually loathed the movie and its schizoid fashion: the Prada dresses better suited to today’s bodies, the lackluster fabrics, the French bobs with ears sticking out” CATHY HORYN fashion critic for The New York Times . Runway.blogs.nytimes.com
- “Less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence”. A.O. Scott The New York Times
- “It’s a dazzling time capsule of a shimmering era and a devastating look into the dark side of the American dream. Too bad Luhrmann, the caffeinated conductor, doesn’t trust that story enough. He’d rather blast your retinas into sugar-shock submission. Uncle, old sport! Uncle!” Entertainment Weekly
- “If I hear someone say “Old sport” one more time I will run them over with my giant yellow convertible” Houston Press
- “why the maestro didn’t just go the whole hog and rename it “Jazz Hands: A Love Story”. A bottle of your best champagne says he thought about it.” theoohtray.com
- “Despite DiCaprio’s prize performance, purists will fume, but even as lit-crashing razzle-dazzle entertainment Luhrmann’s adaptation is a candelabrum too far.” Empire Magazine
- “More like The Great Shatsby” funnyordie.com
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