Elvis
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 24, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 60 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
19
Negative:
5
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 23, 2022
Instead of dramatizing this subject’s life, it dramatizes the extravagance of moviemaking. The script shoves the dicey stuff off to the side: race, infidelity, a complicated figure’s inner demons. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsJun 22, 2022
Elvis certainly works as a jukebox, and it does deliver exactly what you’d expect from a Luhrmann movie. But it never gets close to Presley; it never deals with the knotty man inside the jumpsuit; it never grapples with the complications in his legacy. It’s overstuffed, bloated, and succumbs to trite biopic decisions. Read full review
38
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 25, 2022
It is the film’s bitterest irony that a story about a man controlled by a domineering force seems itself unwilling to give its subject true autonomy, lest that distract from its director’s aesthetic interests. Read full review
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 22, 2022
With Elvis, Luhrmann matches Presley’s drive and instinctive charisma and raises him for sheer nerve, simultaneously hewing to the hoariest conventions of Hollywood rise-and-fall biopics and seeking to gleefully subvert them at every turn. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 25, 2022
It’s hard to find even ironic enjoyment in something this high on its own supply; something much less interested in how its namesake broke the rules than it is in how its director does, and something tirelessly incapable of finding any meaningful overlap between the two. Read full review
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