The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" transposes the novel's Jazz Age decadence to the screen with a brash visual style. Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby is a colossus of ambition and illusion, his opulent parties concealing a feverish yearning for Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), married to the enigmatic Tom (Joel Edgerton). As Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) navigates this world, the film's glittering surface belies the corrosive realities of greed and disillusionment beneath.