Elvis

"It’s all a bit much, which means it’s just right."

"A spangly pinwheel of a movie that converts the Elvis saga we all carry around in our heads into a lavishly staged biopic-as-pop-opera."

"The affinity the director feels for his showman subject is both contagious and exhausting."

"It’s not a movie so much as 159-minute trailer for a film called Elvis – a relentless, frantically flashy montage, epic and yet negligible at the same time..."

"The problem here is that Luhrmann’s Colonel Parker... is possibly the most insufferable movie character ever conceived. The guy makes Jar-Jar Binks seem like Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye."

"A hip-swiveling profile loaded with risk and reward."

"Elvis is the Baz Luhrmanniest film Baz Luhrmann has made yet..."

"Baz Luhrmann’s sweaty, seductive biopic makes the King cool again."

"Baz Luhurmann’s trad but terrifically enjoyable (Elvis) has swagger to spare, and a star-making central performance from Austin Butler..."

"Luhrmann has never been an accomplished dramatist. He has the instincts of a pop video supremo. And in pop god Elvis Presley he may have found his perfect subject."

"(A) loving, kinetic chronicle..."

"Austin Butler is the only thing that works..."

"A larger-than-life, energising and wildly entertaining anthem to the King..."

"Whatever flaws the film has, Butler’s Elvis is mesmeric."

"You can’t help falling in love with Baz Luhrmann’s jukebox epic..."

"Elvis is an exhilarating, maddening spectacle - but one made with love."