As a movie, though, "Elvis" lurches and wobbles, caught in a trap only partly of its own devising. ... He joined The Times in 2000 and has written for the Book Review and The New York Times ...
Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis," Reviewed
By Anthony Lane. June 24, 2022. Baz Luhrmann's bio-pic stars Austin Butler as Presley and Tom Hanks as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Illustration by Nada Hayek. Last year was not great for ...
'Elvis' vs. Elvis
Guests: A.O. Scott, co-chief film critic of The New York Times. Alanna Nash, author of "The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley," "Baby, Let's Play ...
Cannes 2022: 'Elvis,' as Remixed by Baz Luhrmann
Austin Butler as the title rocker in "Elvis," which premiered Wednesday at Cannes. Warner Bros. By Manohla Dargis. May 25, 2022. Follow our live coverage of the Cannes Film Festival's final ...
Why Isn't 'Elvis' a Home Run? Because It's Not ...
Given all this, you might conclude that "Elvis," whatever one's judgment of it, is every inch a Baz Luhrmann movie. Except that it's not. Not really. I mean, not really. "Elvis" is ...
Elvis movie review & film summary (2022)
Elvis. "Elvis" brings all of the glitz, rhinestones, and jumpsuits you'd expect in an Elvis film, but without the necessary complexity for a movie from 2022 about the "King.". Maximalist filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, who abhors visual restraint and instead opts for grand theatricality, should be the perfect creator for a Presley biopic, but ...
Cannes Review: Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' Is an Exhilarating, Maddening
Baz Luhrmann's movies—even the great ones, like his 1996 Shakespeare-via-Tiger Beat romance Romeo + Juliet, or The Great Gatsby, from 2013, a fringed shimmy of decadence and loneliness ...
'Elvis' review: Movie by Baz Luhrmann ...
In 'Elvis,' Baz Luhrmann brilliantly floods our senses with arresting sights and sounds The director's trademark razzle-dazzle surrounds Tom Hanks as an oily Colonel Tom Parker and Austin ...
'Elvis' review: Austin Butler is the King in Baz Luhrmann epic
Review: Austin Butler is the King incarnate in Baz Luhrmann's manic, hip-swiveling 'Elvis' Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in the movie "Elvis." (Hugh Stewart / Warner Bros. Pictures)
'Elvis' review: Baz Luhrmann shakes up Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France — Elvis Presley famously never got the overseas touring career he deserved. He played only three venues outside the U.S., all of them in Canada in 1957, well before reaching peak ...
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Elvis review — the singer lives again in Baz Luhrmann's rock'n'roll fever dream. ★★★★☆It's the morphine, silly. It's all about the morphine. This music biopic from the director Baz Luhrmann plunges early on into a morphine dripper and does n.
Watch Austin Butler Cause Hysteria in 'Elvis'
Hear Towa Bird's bouncy revenge rock and 10 more new songs. At 100, the intergalactic jazz hero Marshall Allen is still on a mission. Omar Apollo's new album is a Critic's Pick. Read the review.
Elvis Review: Biopic Gleefully Distorts Singer's Life and Career
"Elvis" comes close to that kind of moment a couple of times, most notably when young Elvis watches an old bluesman stomp through a swampy, doomy version of Arthur Crudup's "That's All ...
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"Elvis" Is a Wikipedia Entry Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Richard Brody writes about Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis," a bio-pic about Presley (played by Austin Butler) told from the perspective of his predatory manager, Colonel Tom Parker (played by Tom Hanks).
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The movie faithfully recreates landmark, detail-perfect TV appearances and performances—the 1968 Elvis "comeback" NBC special, his record-setting 1973 satellite concert from Hawaii, his four ...
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Elvis himself has been portrayed on film at least as many times as Elvis himself made movies. Austin Butler may be the absolute best of the interpretations. ... The New Empire Review: Adam Wingard ...
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Even The New York Times, which usually mocked Presley's films, found itself surprised by his performance: "Cut my legs off and call me Shorty!" Howard Thompson's review began. "Elvis Presley can act."
Review: 'The King' Chases the American Dream and Elvis
By Manohla Dargis. June 21, 2018. Wildly ambitious, thoroughly entertaining and embellished with some snaky moves, Eugene Jarecki's documentary "The King" is a lot like its nominal subject ...
Review: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis is a dizzying, powerful work of pop
All of which means that, yes, the pair's new super-sized movie, Elvis, is an instant piece of essential pop. But the film is not an easy, chart-topping sensation fresh off the hit-factory floor.
On Elvis Presley's Birthday, a Review of His 1972 New York Debut
That, presumably, you knew. Thirty-seven and a half years later, on June 9, 1972, the king performed a concert in New York City for the first time. Below (or click here) is The New York Times's review of the show. It partakes of a predictable, if unfortunate, amount of cultural snobbery in the lead-up, but in the end, it renders unto the king ...
The New York Times Reviews Elvis at Madison Square Garden, NYC, June 9
by Grace Lichtenstein New York Times Saturday, June 10, 1972. In mink and in denim, in bleached blond bouffant and in shoulder-length shags, the fans of 37-year-old Elvis Presley flocked to Madison Square Garden last night to see the first live concert ever given in New York by the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In many ways the event was like a ...
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As a movie, though, "Elvis" lurches and wobbles, caught in a trap only partly of its own devising. ... He joined The Times in 2000 and has written for the Book Review and The New York Times ...
By Anthony Lane. June 24, 2022. Baz Luhrmann's bio-pic stars Austin Butler as Presley and Tom Hanks as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Illustration by Nada Hayek. Last year was not great for ...
Guests: A.O. Scott, co-chief film critic of The New York Times. Alanna Nash, author of "The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley," "Baby, Let's Play ...
Austin Butler as the title rocker in "Elvis," which premiered Wednesday at Cannes. Warner Bros. By Manohla Dargis. May 25, 2022. Follow our live coverage of the Cannes Film Festival's final ...
Given all this, you might conclude that "Elvis," whatever one's judgment of it, is every inch a Baz Luhrmann movie. Except that it's not. Not really. I mean, not really. "Elvis" is ...
Elvis. "Elvis" brings all of the glitz, rhinestones, and jumpsuits you'd expect in an Elvis film, but without the necessary complexity for a movie from 2022 about the "King.". Maximalist filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, who abhors visual restraint and instead opts for grand theatricality, should be the perfect creator for a Presley biopic, but ...
Baz Luhrmann's movies—even the great ones, like his 1996 Shakespeare-via-Tiger Beat romance Romeo + Juliet, or The Great Gatsby, from 2013, a fringed shimmy of decadence and loneliness ...
In 'Elvis,' Baz Luhrmann brilliantly floods our senses with arresting sights and sounds The director's trademark razzle-dazzle surrounds Tom Hanks as an oily Colonel Tom Parker and Austin ...
Review: Austin Butler is the King incarnate in Baz Luhrmann's manic, hip-swiveling 'Elvis' Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in the movie "Elvis." (Hugh Stewart / Warner Bros. Pictures)
CANNES, France — Elvis Presley famously never got the overseas touring career he deserved. He played only three venues outside the U.S., all of them in Canada in 1957, well before reaching peak ...
Elvis review — the singer lives again in Baz Luhrmann's rock'n'roll fever dream. ★★★★☆It's the morphine, silly. It's all about the morphine. This music biopic from the director Baz Luhrmann plunges early on into a morphine dripper and does n.
Hear Towa Bird's bouncy revenge rock and 10 more new songs. At 100, the intergalactic jazz hero Marshall Allen is still on a mission. Omar Apollo's new album is a Critic's Pick. Read the review.
"Elvis" comes close to that kind of moment a couple of times, most notably when young Elvis watches an old bluesman stomp through a swampy, doomy version of Arthur Crudup's "That's All ...
New TV Tonight Star Trek: Prodigy: Season 2 Grace: Season 4 Down in the Valley: Season 1 ... Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/16/23 Full Review Elvis fan Too good to even describe.
Richard Brody writes about Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis," a bio-pic about Presley (played by Austin Butler) told from the perspective of his predatory manager, Colonel Tom Parker (played by Tom Hanks).
The movie faithfully recreates landmark, detail-perfect TV appearances and performances—the 1968 Elvis "comeback" NBC special, his record-setting 1973 satellite concert from Hawaii, his four ...
Elvis himself has been portrayed on film at least as many times as Elvis himself made movies. Austin Butler may be the absolute best of the interpretations. ... The New Empire Review: Adam Wingard ...
Even The New York Times, which usually mocked Presley's films, found itself surprised by his performance: "Cut my legs off and call me Shorty!" Howard Thompson's review began. "Elvis Presley can act."
By Manohla Dargis. June 21, 2018. Wildly ambitious, thoroughly entertaining and embellished with some snaky moves, Eugene Jarecki's documentary "The King" is a lot like its nominal subject ...
All of which means that, yes, the pair's new super-sized movie, Elvis, is an instant piece of essential pop. But the film is not an easy, chart-topping sensation fresh off the hit-factory floor.
That, presumably, you knew. Thirty-seven and a half years later, on June 9, 1972, the king performed a concert in New York City for the first time. Below (or click here) is The New York Times's review of the show. It partakes of a predictable, if unfortunate, amount of cultural snobbery in the lead-up, but in the end, it renders unto the king ...
by Grace Lichtenstein New York Times Saturday, June 10, 1972. In mink and in denim, in bleached blond bouffant and in shoulder-length shags, the fans of 37-year-old Elvis Presley flocked to Madison Square Garden last night to see the first live concert ever given in New York by the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In many ways the event was like a ...