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  1. West Side Story (2021)

    The 1961 iconic film-musical, "West Side Story," is a gem. There are some that would never have believed it was conceivable to reboot a story like "West Side Story." ... As one person mentioned in another review, I appreciated that the movie was filmed in a tinted-like fashion to make it seem like it was a film from the 1950s/60s. The ...

  2. West Side Story (Christian Movie Review)

    West Side Story (2021) is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name that was loosely based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It was previously adapted for the screen in 1961. The 1961 version is considered a classic by many, and won ten Oscars in its day, including Best Picture.

  3. WEST SIDE STORY (2021)

    WEST SIDE STORY (2021) is Steven Spielberg's remake of the famous movie and stage musical. Two street gangs in 1950s New York City, the Jets and the Sharks, are fighting for territory. The leaders of the two gangs, Riff and Bernardo, decide to have a big rumble to decide who gets the territory.

  4. West Side Story (2021)

    Reimagined and then released exactly 60 years after the Oscar-winning original, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of West Side Story remains largely faithful to the 1961 version, which in turn brought a 1957 Broadway play to the big screen.. The music and dance numbers retain much of their original feel in the aftermath of lyricist Stephen Sondheim's recent passing as Spielberg directs his ...

  5. West Side Story

    Full Review | Nov 19, 2022. Dallas King Outtake Mag. From a physical and emotional standpoint, the end result is not quite a rumble in the Bronx, more of a fumble in the asphalt jungle. As pure ...

  6. West Side Story

    West Side Story is an old story. Really old. It's based on Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet, replacing the warring Italian clans of the Montagues and Capulets with the Jets and Sharks. It was a massive hit on Broadway back in 1957, and it got even bigger when it moved to the screen in 1961.

  7. West Side Story movie review & film summary (2021)

    Much of "West Side Story" is about that need, that sense of something under the surface that just has to escape—restlessness, passion, anger, displacement—the sense that "something's coming" that so many people feel when they're young. Immediately, one can feel the craftsmanship of this restaging of the classic Broadway smash.

  8. West Side Story (2021)

    Steven Spielberg's West Side Story presents a new look at the classic musical that lives up to its beloved forebear -- and in some respects might even surpass it. The acting, singing, and dancing ...

  9. 'West Side Story' Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight

    "West Side Story" sits near the pinnacle of post-World War II American middlebrow culture. First performed on Broadway in 1957 and brought to the screen four years later, it survives as both a ...

  10. West Side Story

    David Reddish Queerty. The film version of West Side Story often pops up on Greatest Movie of All Time lists thanks to its unique blending of realism & metaphorical dance and performances by Oscar ...

  11. West Side Story Movie Review

    Parents need to know that West Side Story is co-directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York. It stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer and explores race relations and immigration in a musical format that pits a White gang against a Puerto Rican one. Despite touching on race, only one of the main actors, Rita Moreno, is Latina.

  12. Movie Review: West Side Story

    Director Steven Spielberg adored "West Side Story" as a child. Now, he's remade the classic musical 60 years later—an effort that's both true to the original, and which has a bit more content than the 1961 version.

  13. 'West Side Story': Review

    US. 2021. 156 mins. A 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 ...

  14. West Side Story (2021) Movie Review

    What you will—and won't—find in this movie. Parents need to know that West Side Story is Steven Spielberg's much anticipated adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet -inspired 1957 Broadway musical (which previously inspired the Academy Award-winning 1961 film). It stars Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as legendary star-crossed lovers Tony and ...

  15. Is West Side Story any good? A movie review by Chris Jenkins

    Like Santa Claus and jingle bells, nothing goes together quite like dance fighting and cultural bigotry as prominently displayed in this newest take on a beloved musical.

  16. West Side Story review

    4. Summary. Mr. Spielberg's remake of West Side Story proves you don't have to overhaul with a classic, you just have to preserve its soul. There isn't a genre of film Steven Spielberg can't master. The only two he hasn't attempted have been a western and a documentary. For his first foray into the musical genre, he tries to remake a ...

  17. Review: 'West Side Story' is Steven Spielberg's most exhilarating movie

    Review: 'West Side Story' is Steven Spielberg's most exhilarating movie in years. Rachel Zegler as Maria in a scene from "West Side Story.". (20th Century Studios/AP) By Justin Chang ...

  18. 'West Side Story' review: Steven Spielberg revamps an American classic

    Review: Steven Spielberg doesn't disappoint with his vibrant, revamped 'West Side Story'. Steven Spielberg worked wonders with a shark before, and he makes magic with a bunch of Sharks and some ...

  19. Which West Side Story movie is better? 1961 or 2021 version?

    Fun fact in the heights and west side story movie were filming at the same in new York. They were so close that one of the trucks from the film productions had to move because it was in the shot of the other movie scene. ... My guess is that a fictitious religious "white" element was added to balance the many Christian/Hispanic embellishments ...

  20. Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' Review

    The new West Side Story won't take the place of the glorious 1961 screen version, co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, whose dances remain untouchable. But with its more inclusive ...

  21. 'West Side Story' Review: Steven Spielberg's Gritty, Rousing Upgrade

    "West Side Story" is a bursting, live-wire pageant of a movie. I just wish it had a final act that soared instead of lumbering to what feels like an overly determined message-movie landing ...

  22. Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Is a Stunning Achievement

    Spielberg's 'West Side Story' comes off not like a re-creation of an older work, but like a work summoned from the memory of a feeling. ... This, possibly, is the best kind of movie, the stealth ...

  23. West Side Story review: A killer musical reworking from Steven Spielberg

    If, like me, you tend to think West Side Story is just a lot of blokes in vests climbing over fences, interrupted by the odd song about rumbles, Steven Spielberg would like a word, daddy-o. His ...

  24. Review: Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story"

    Delayed a year by the pandemic, "West Side Story" (Dec. 10 in theaters) arrives with a glow of eulogy, coming on the heels of Sondheim's death at 91. "West Side Story," originally staged in 1957, was Sondheim's first musical. (Robbins conceived it, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Arthur Laurents and lyrics by Sondheim.)

  25. 'Widow Clicquot' Review: Champagne Mami

    'Widow Clicquot' Review: Champagne Mami This muddled film, based on a true story, chronicles the origins of the French champagne house Veuve Clicquot. Listen to this article · 2:07 min Learn more