Deborah Ross

Why? Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story reviewed

What wonders has the director brought to a film that was great and beautiful in the first instance? Not many

Impressive but without the intimacy or rawness of the original: Ariana DeBose as Anita in Spielberg’s West Side Story. Credit: Photo: Niko Tavernise. © 2020 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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