Review: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis starring utterly transcendent Austin Butler is the best and worst of Luhrmann’s brand of ritzy-glitzy filmmaking

Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling music biopic, Elvis, is the best and worst of Luhrmann’s brand of ritzy-glitzy filmmaking. On the one hand, Luhrmann’s signature maximalism is perfectly suited to the unabashedly tacky Elvis, both the man who loved flashy clothes and accoutrement, and the icon immortalized i...