The Underperformance of ‘West Side Story’: No, It’s Not Just Because Gen Z Doesn’t Like Musicals (Column)

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I liked Steven Spielberg’s emotionally energized, visually bustling “West Side Story” just fine, though I’m not as over the moon about it as some of my critical colleagues. There’s an e…

about it as some of my critical colleagues. There’s an ecstatic tone wafting through the reviews. I raise the issue because you would have expected that collective hosanna to be one of many things that inspired people to go out and see the movie.of “West Side Story’s” opening-weekend box-office take — a total of just $10.

It’s a depressing fact of our moviegoing moment that when it comes to prestige dramas pitched to adults, one title after another has drastically underperformed. Yet one such film has, in fact, succeeded:which actually had to fight its way through a blizzard of critical derision . It may still be an uphill climb for that movie to make a profit , but what’s undeniable is that “House of Gucci” found an audience.

In 2005, he made two movies — one pop, one serious —that added up to a sidelong commentary on the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. “War of the Worlds” was his disruption-from-another-world movie, with a chaos that channeled our own sense of how America had been ripped asunder. And “Munich,” which I consider to be one of Spielberg’s five greatest films , was his hypnotic thriller meditation on the seductions and perils of vengeance.

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