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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
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Read from 49 comments (46 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 10 of them described how it moves.
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“the pacing comes to a complete standstill every time a song ends”
JeBjBo · Metacritic ↗
“Despite having the same runtime, the 2021 version feels much longer than the 1961 version”
JeBjBo · Metacritic ↗
“the second I watched the movie it really touched me”
superfrog281 · Metacritic ↗
“the dancing and story really entertained me so much I got into it”
superfrog281 · Metacritic ↗
“It also almost made me cry”
superfrog281 · Metacritic ↗
“felt too tired to watch it at once”
Cheblow · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 83% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“Heartfelt and heart-breaking, this feels like Spielberg has made an adaptation faithful to its roots but also, always, alive to the modern world.”
Helen O'Hara, Empire · 100
“West Side Story is contrived, certainly, a hothouse flower of musical theatre, and Spielberg quite rightly doesn’t try hiding any of those stage origins. His mastery of technique is thrilling; I gave my heart to this poignant American fairytale of doomed love.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
“There’s no need for Spielberg and Kushner to tease out topicality here. Aspects of West Side Story feel as pertinent today as they must have done on its 1957 Broadway debut. But relevance is easy: timelessness is the real artistic feat. And Spielberg has magnificently pulled it off.”
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100
“The big news about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is that it’s a magnificent movie, even by Spielberg standards and even by “West Side Story” standards.”
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“Full of energy, wit, passion and tragedy, looking backward and forward at once, it is one of the most moving films of the year.”
Caryn James, BBC · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 88, the watch 63
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“the pacing comes to a complete standstill every time a song ends”
JeBjBoabout 15–75% inread it ↗
“Despite having the same runtime, the 2021 version feels much longer than the 1961 version”
JeBjBoabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“the second I watched the movie it really touched me”
superfrog281about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the dancing and story really entertained me so much I got into it”
superfrog281about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Not one for me. I did not enjoy 1961's <em>'West Side Story'</em>, unfortunately. I felt almost everything about it to be kinda crappy if I'm honest. For one I didn't feel any chemistry with the cast, with no standout performer in sight; and that's on top of the iffy casting itself. None of the music - aside from that one tiny bit of "Tonight" - hits and the story comes across as forced. The musical numbers are also extremely staged, the whole thing feels like a stage performance rather th”
r96skread it ↗
“**An old musical with some hints of ethnic prejudice, and it didn't seem as good as I thought it would be.** This is one of those films that, honestly, I find difficult to understand. It is a production that brought to the cinema an interesting Broadway musical, which is still shown in several places today, and which tells a story similar to Romeo and Juliet in the context of youth gang wars in New York in the mid-20th century. The idea is seductive, and developing it from Shakespeare's sourc”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
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