Rating: 5/5 -- It's impossible to begrudge the vertiginous energy and feeling that make this one of the great American musicals, and one radically told through dance. Full Review

Jerome Robbins' choreography was as good as the critics said it was, but I was bothered by its unresolved discord with the "real" story. Full Review

Rating: 5/5 -- Ten well-deserved Oscars -- plus a special award for Jerome Robbins's dynamic choreography -- adorned this electrifying and moving version of the magnificent Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical. Full Review

A radiant and touching performance by Natalie Wood as a Puerto Rican beauty in a New York slum is only one of the many strong points of this superb musical drama... Full Review

Robert Wise hits the mark in creating an interesting and dramatic environment, with ordinary observations about immigrants. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review

Rating: A+ -- [VIDEO ESSAY] Indisputably the greatest musical ever made, "West Side Story" (1961) has sadly proven socially timeless regarding America's eternally troubled immigrant experience. Full Review

West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations. Full Review