ELVIS All Critics (316) | Top Critics (70) | Fresh (245) | Rotten (71) Baz Luhrmann turns the life of Elvis Aaron Presley into a three-ring circus with more sensation than sense in Elvis. But it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.  July 1, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4  Ty Burr Ty Burr’s Watch List TOP CRITIC Flashes of color, lightning cuts, and the camera spins and needle drops are at times overwhelming, but it’s an overall enjoyable experience that washes over you in waves of excitement.  July 1, 2022  Adam Mullins-Khatib Chicago Reader TOP CRITIC Baz Luhrmann photobombs this Elvis portrait with over-extravagant filmmaking that dwarfs the iconic rock and roller. And that ain’t easy.  June 30, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4  Dwight Brown DwightBrownInk.com TOP CRITIC The most anachronistic element of Elvis is its cloying need to assure us that its hero was a good person, as if trying to preemptively counter some imagined onslaught of TikToks about why Elvis Presley is problematic.  June 28, 2022  Jack Hamilton Slate TOP CRITIC Of the actors who have previously tried to bottle Elvis’s lightning-like magic, none has come close to the physical, emotional, electrical energy that throbs through Austin Butler’s titular performance here.  June 27, 2022 | Rating: 5/5  Mark Kermode Observer (UK) TOP CRITIC It’s an epic collage of images and sensations, but it is not a movie. Yet despite a surfeit of annoying flaws, I must add that it is also an occasional whale of an extravaganza.  June 27, 2022 | Rating: 2/4  Rex Reed Observer TOP CRITIC If you have come to this film expecting new insights or revelations, then you will find there is nothing to see here. Actually, there is something to see, but it is of course all the fireworks and glitter of a Baz Luhrmann film dealing with Elvis.  July 3, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/5  Louie Fecou Ready Steady Cut Baz Luhrmann IS Col. Tom Parker. An exploitive carnival barker endlessly shouting at you but saying nothing. Completely wrapped up in his own voice that none other can get through, snatching your money and giving you nothing to take with you in return.  July 3, 2022 | Rating: 0.5/4  Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast “Elvis” rocks.  July 3, 2022 | Rating: 3.5 stars  Linda Cook OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) The performance by Butler is near perfect; the performance by Tom Hanks grows on you; the directing style of Luhrman is significant and easily distinguishable.  July 2, 2022 | Rating: 7/10  Jackie K. Cooper jackiekcooper.com The new biopic of the King does what’s totally unnecessary: clumsily bury the legend of Elvis under devices and metaphors.  July 2, 2022  Paul Thompson The Ringer At 159 minutes, it would be almost redundant to point out that Elvis is an indulgent piece of work…  July 1, 2022 | Rating: 5/10  Jon Negroni The Young Folks…