Rotten Tomatoes: 94% (8.70 in average rating) with 18 top critic reviewsMetacritic: 87/100 (28 critics)As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.It’s a wonderful musical, and an unabashed Steven Spielberg movie. And the moments in which it most comfortably allows itself to be both of those things at once leave you convinced that some harmonies are worth waiting for, even if it seems like they’ve been always been around the corner and whistling down the river.-David Ehrlich, IndieWire: B+West Side Story is contrived, certainly, a hothouse flower of musical theatre, and Spielberg quite rightly doesn’t try hiding any of those stage origins. His mastery of technique is thrilling; I gave my heart to this poignant American fairytale of doomed love.-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: 5/5Spielberg and Kushner clearly revere that history, but they’re also not intimidated by it; there are any number of instances where viewers can point to this song placement or that bit of character backstory as a new idea that the two have brought to the property, but this is a take on “West Side Story” that’s both reverent and exciting.-Alonso Duralde, The WrapThere’s no need for Spielberg and Kushner to tease out topicality here. Aspects of West Side Story feel as pertinent today as they must have done on its 1957 Broadway debut. But relevance is easy: timelessness is the real artistic feat. And Spielberg has magnificently pulled it off-Robbie Collin, The Telegraph: 5/5Heartfelt and heart-breaking, this feels like Spielberg has made an adaptation faithful to its roots but also, always, alive to the modern world.-Helen O'Hara, Empire: 5/5A solidly entertaining remake peppered with a few transcendent moments, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story emphasises the musical’s most beloved elements without trying to radically reinterpret the source material.-Tim Grierson, Screen DailyWhen the very ground on which people live becomes uncertain, the necessity of passion—in love, in combat—becomes all the more apparent, and Spielberg’s fidelity to that sentiment, and to his own decisions, bears the vitality of this alternate take aloft.-Ryan Swen, The Film Stage: A-PLOTThis reimagining of the beloved musical West Side Story tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.DIRECTORSteven SpielbergWRITERBook By Arthur LaurentsScreenplay By Tony KushnerReimagining William ShakespeareMUSICLeonard BernsteinCINEMATOGRAPHYJanusz KaminskiEDITORSarah Broshar and Michael KahnRelease date:December 10, 2021 (wide release)STARRINGAnsel Elgort as TonyRachel Zegler as MariaAriana DeBose as AnitaDavid Alvarez as BernardoRita Moreno as ValentinaBrian d'Arcy James as Officer Krupke via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3Ip25QC
