West Side Story

The choreography was amazing and all the emotions were felt. It was way better than I expected it to be.

One of my personal favorites. Love the dancing, music, acting, and cinematography. 9.5/10

i'm not really a fan of musicals but actually quite enjoyed this!

Only for lovers of (the) old musical(s). Lots of good acting and singing. But most songs are clunky. The script is really weak in the first half. But if you started stay with it as the second half is better. Personally, I disliked the showy ultra high vocals by the two main actors. It seems the music might have been better served with lower voicings.

Big cinema! A worthy and deeply remake of the original. Genius film making, using shadows, camera, lighting, story telling foremost with songs at its service, amazing acting, in particular the star-making performance of Rachel Zegler. Movies of this quality are so rare these days.

Spielberg does the impossible here (make a great new film adaptation of a classic stage musical that already had a classic film adaptation) and nearly all of the changes/ updates work. Hell even some of the new stagings are even better here ("Cool" and "I Feel Pretty").

Steven Spielberg livens up his direction for this dazzling adaptation of the musical that sings passion and effort without resorting to the outright drab and melancholy aesthetic of many of the films that directors of his amount of fame and legacy often resort to eventually.

I didn't enjoy it. I enjoyed the skill of the dancers but feel there was too much of it. The dancing didn't seem connected to the plot, and came across as dancing just to dance. I also felt the rivalry and hatred between the two sides lacked believability. Throughout the film I could not accept any of it as either real or very entertaining. I never got the feeling that Tony and Maria were in love. Individually some of the acting was great, but in many scenes one actor would be wonderful but the other(s) in the scene were just reciting lines.

I'm actually blown off by the performance of the supporting characters like Riff, Anita

God Awful movie that nobody should watch. Ariana De Bose was the only bright spot in the whole movie.