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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Dec 2021

Whatever this new adaptation’s popular reception, it’s five times the movie the ‘61 movie was…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Dec 2021

Spielberg and Kaminski have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for decades, but their work on West Side Story brings the partnership to breathtakingly…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 07 Dec 2021

Spielberg’s version improves upon the original in almost every way; the performances are stronger, the casting is better, the script is sharper,…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 06 Dec 2021

The most surprising thing about West Side Story, Spielberg’s most dynamic movie in years, is how at home the director seems in a genre he…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 03 Dec 2021

During the production numbers, Spielberg’s camera is almost always on the move, but not in a distracting way…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 03 Dec 2021

Is it sacrilege for Spielberg to re-imagine the Oscar-winning 1961 musical classic? Not when it’s this thrilling…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 03 Dec 2021

The new West Side Story doesn't entirely answer the most obvious question, which is why essentially remake a 60-year-old classic…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Dec 2021

There’s a touch of diet Brando about Elgort’s reformed bad boy-turned-lovebird, but Zegler brings a lovely brand of innocence and conviction…

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By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 02 Dec 2021

Full of energy, wit, passion and tragedy, looking backward and forward at once, it is one of the most moving films of the year…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Dec 2021

The big news about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is that it’s a magnificent movie, even by Spielberg standards and even by “West…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 02 Dec 2021

There’s no need for Spielberg and Kushner to tease out topicality here…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 02 Dec 2021

West Side Story is contrived, certainly, a hothouse flower of musical theatre, and Spielberg quite rightly doesn’t try hiding any of those…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire (3,446) on 02 Dec 2021

Heartfelt and heart-breaking, this feels like Spielberg has made an adaptation faithful to its roots but also, always, alive to the modern world…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 02 Dec 2021

Spielberg's West Side Story is a knock-out. A dynamite blend of old-school musical showmanship and modern sensibilities…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Dec 2021

Here is a glorious and genuine movie-movie: a vivid, sweeping, beautiful piece of top-tier pop-art…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 2021

Of course, the real star here is the staging, a balm for an age of lead-footed Broadway translations…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 02 Dec 2021

Shoot it loud and there’s music playing; shoot it soft and it’s almost like praying: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story pumps the classic…

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By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Dec 2021

When the very ground on which people live becomes uncertain, the necessity of passion—in love, in combat—becomes all the more apparent,…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Dec 2021

It feels like a rare achievement to even attempt to scale the unscalable and still, after more than half a century, be able to make it sing…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Dec 2021

While many wondered about Spielberg’s chutzpah in tackling a movie musical widely regarded as an ageless classic, his richly satisfying remake…

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