The Great Gatsby (2013)

For all its sweeping panorama, frenzied edits and confetti-gun and fireworks CGI, director Baz Luhrmann's (Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge) 3D spectacle The Great Gatsby feels surprisingly claustrophobic and plodding. The script, co-written by Australians Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, tends to all the major events of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel without attention to character, structure or pacing. Read the rest of the review on KCActive.com.