The Turning Point Reviews
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A well-made soap opera with a story that right out of a 1930s backstage musical.
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| Original Score: 3/4
You yield to The Turning Point relucantly, knowing well that it is conning you -- with sentiment, with flamboyance, with sheer slickness.
The Turning Point is one of the best films of its era.
Time Out
Top CriticThere's some beautiful dancing and a wealth of detail about the world of classical ballet.
The Turning Point is entertaining, not for discovering new material, but for treating old material with style and romantic feeling that, in this day and age, seem remarkably unafraid.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Kansas City Kansan
MacLaine and Bancroft are electric to watch.
| Original Score: 5/5
Spirituality and Practice
A wonderful film about the friendship between two women and about the marvels of ballet.
For a film ostensibly dedicated to physical grace, Ross's images are unforgivably clumsy.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What stands out are the ballet performances.
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| Original Score: C+
EmanuelLevy.Com
Though made in 1977, this strained effort tries to combine a 1940s woman's picture with backstage melodrama set in the modern ballet world.
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| Original Score: C
FulvueDrive-in.com
A glorified made-for-Lifetime-cable movie.
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| Original Score: C
Goatdog's Movies
It deserved all the Oscars it won: none.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Unwatchable for anyone who isn't a mad ballet fan.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
Its sophistications are superficial, to say the least, but it wowed the Academy in 1977.
