Joe Morgenstern likened the film to the Roaring Twenties as envisioned and criticized by Fitzgerald .
`` Among major critics , Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal felt the elaborate production designs were a misfire and what was `` '' intractably wrong with the film is that there 's no reality to heighten ; it 's a spectacle in search of a soul . ''
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