L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

Cherot (who also co-wrote the script with Charles E. Drew Jr.) has made that rare hip-hop movie that doesn't fetishize lurid ghetto clichés.

Variety by Scott Foundas

A handsome, compelling drama, about the African-American elite settling in the Hamptons, that more than stands on its own.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Seems like a dopey idea to me, but if you aren't familiar with the Fitzgerald novel, you may enjoy this; at least Jones and his costars play the story as if they believed in it.

Entertainment Weekly by Gregory Kirschling

"The Great Gatsby" was famously bungled in the pulseless 1974 movie with Robert Redford. G, which updates the story with an African-American cast, is another strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average.

San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Hartlaub

Unpolished but entertaining.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

If the movie's not as bad as it sounds, it's not all that great, either.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The problem with G is not merely that the ending doesn't work and feels hopelessly contrived. It's also that the plot adds too many unnecessary characters and subplots, so that the main line gets misplaced.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

A hip-hop reimagining of "The Great Gatsby" that fails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

Unable to embrace the world he's seeking to depict, Cherot is left with a lifeless shell, a movie so preoccupied with being noble that it forgets to be interesting. The problem with G is not that it's unbelievable, it's just boring.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

Despite the updated setting and some on-the-money performances, the sleek if dramatically flimsy results make for a less than great "Gatsby."