52
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
14(42%)
mixed
15(45%)
negative
4(12%)
Showing 33 Critic Reviews
91
Ultimately the ballet performances, and notably the work of Stiefel, a star with American Ballet Theatre, are the only moments that deserve center stage.
80
Audiences will leave the theater ready to sign up for some dance classes themselves.
80
The end is predictable after the first five minutes (two, if you're smart), but the film sucks you in all the same.
80
Grand, juicy fun regardless, tapping as it does into some archetypal pleasure center.
75
The movie uses the materials of melodrama, but is gentle with them; it's oriented more in the real world, and doesn't jack up every conflict and love story into an overwrought crisis.
75
Rarely has a dance movie done so many cinematic pirouettes with such a graceful sense of audience-pleasing fun.
75
The best dance movie since "Flashdance."
75
Although the film's ending is a little too neat and happy to be realistic, it does leave you with the feeling of young girls taking charge of their lives.
By Monica Eng
70
Sexy and infectious in spite of itself.
70
There isn't a sensible reason to recommend this movie, except that its melange of clichés and conventions is embarrassingly enjoyable.
