Film Review: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis is a tragedy of ambition and greed

Luhrmann is scrupulous in acknowledging Elvis’s debt to Big Mama Thornton, BB King and Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, among many others

Elvis: A Baz Luhrmann film, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks

★★★★★

Almost a decade after his The Great Gatsby (2013) explored the dark heart of the American Dream, Baz Lurhmann returns to the subject with Elvis (12A) — a rags-to-riches fable about the po’ country boy who became The King.