Film Review: The Great Gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBYStarring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey McGuire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki

Directed by Baz Luhrmann
PG-13, 143 min, Drama, Romance


Like the quintessential display of old money, symbolism, American dream, and narcissism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, "The Great Gatsby", Baz Luhrmann’s film, "The Great Gatsby", has that same fervor of grandiosity. With the Roaring 1920s in the backdrop and its toxicity within the confinements of excess, grandeur, power and greed, Luhrmann’s attempt to demystify an American parable is well syncopated with ‘greatness’ that a young bond broker, Nick Carraway (Toby McGuire) succinctly relates while recovering from a trauma.