68%User score 68 percent
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Drama · Romance
User Score
1.8K votes
A city divided. Their love will challenge everything.
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Recommendations based on this film
dfle3
January 13, 2022
West Side story: Gritty morality tale with an emotional punch. 85% Not having seen the stage production of "West Side story" or its first film version, which I understand is regarded as a classic, I really don't have a point of comparison for this new film version of the long-running musical theatre staple. Of course, with the US being so effective at exporting its pop culture around the world, I was aware of songs a…
Read the full review on TMDB
Chad Jordahl
March 14, 2022
Good production. I liked the performers, except Ansel Elgort as the lead male, Tony, who I found to be uninteresting. I never got into the story or the songs. A couple of other thoughts: * Carefully choreographed Broadway-style dance routines severely diminish the menace of street gangs. * Love at first sight is a myth and is a very bad reason to kill or be killed. (Intense attraction, curiosity, and lust at first si…
Read the full review on TMDBbeyondthecineramadome
June 20, 2022
Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/it-all-begins-tonight-west-side-story-review<a> This film is a still (sadly) all-too-relevant story about how hatred infiltrates communities and the struggle to find a place to belong. West Side Story is about creating a home, however, you choose to define the word. Unfortunately, the miscasting of Tony brings down what could have been…
Read the full review on TMDB
Filipe Manuel Neto
June 3, 2024
**A very welcome remake.** I must be one of the few iconoclasts who has not declared here his undying love for “West Side Story”, one of the most successful and acclaimed musicals of all time, and which continues, to this day, to seduce crowds of spectators. As I already had occasion to say then, I expected something else. The story is based on the ethnic conflict between a band of young Anglo-Saxons from New York an…
Read the full review on TMDBReviews are written by the TMDB community, not by West Side Story's publisher.
