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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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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 02 Dec 2021

This, possibly, is the best kind of movie, the stealth achievement that has been hiding in plain sight all along…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 02 Dec 2021

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a dazzling complementary piece to the original…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 02 Dec 2021

Spielberg and Kushner clearly revere that history, but they’re also not intimidated by it; there are any number of instances where viewers…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 02 Dec 2021

This West Side Story succeeds most as a revival not just of Robbins’ musical but of the best of classical, studio-made, big-screen cinema…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 02 Dec 2021

And the 89-year-old Moreno, creating an effortless bridge between this movie and the previous one, gives us a gift late in the film that had…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 02 Dec 2021

With outstanding performances from newcomer Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose, Spielberg’s take doesn't stray too far from the original 1957…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 02 Dec 2021

It’s a wonderful musical, and an unabashed Steven Spielberg movie…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Dec 2021

Spielberg’s movie may be rougher, grittier, more lived-in and, in terms of cultural representation, more truthful than its 1961 cinematic…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Dec 2021

This new take on the material is more sinewy and sensual…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 02 Dec 2021

A solidly entertaining remake peppered with a few transcendent moments, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story emphasises the musical’s most…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Dec 2021

There are scenes in Spielberg’s version that will melt you, scenes that will make your pulse race, and scenes where you simply sit back and…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Dec 2021

West Side Story is timeless, because of the source material. Tragic romances never go out of style…

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