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Ballerina's rich setting and beautifully animated dance sequences elevate a solidly crafted all-ages adventure with a surprising amount of colorful flair. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Director:

Éric Warin

Cast & Crew

Camille Cottin

Malik Bentalha

Éric Warin
Director

Critic Reviews for Ballerina

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (8)

The ballet sequences remain curiously earthbound in an animated film untethered from physical reality that can't compete with the dazzling, gravity-defying dance-offs of live-action fare like the Step Up movies.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Radheyan Simonpillai
NOW Toronto
Ballerina is at its best in the dancing scenes, which are animated with verve and realism, with every leap and pirouette finely rendered.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
This serviceable French-Canadian digimation cleaves to the post-Cowell definition of the word "journey": its heroine is a redheaded dreamer (voiced by Elle Fanning) who flees her orphanage to blag a spot at the fin de sicle Paris Opera.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mike McCahill
Guardian
Ballerina is an animation that's ideal for junior balletomanes.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
The movie is a comical and visual treat. And there's a touching ending. Take the kids; take yourself; take everyone you know.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
The voice cast, too, are exceptional, enlivening dialogue that frequently sounds as though it has lost a little something in translation. If only the plot was worthy of their efforts.

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
The title of this French animation will be catnip to a certain demographic - young, fond of a tutu, dreams of Swan Lake in their hearts.

August 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Alison Rowat
The Herald (Scotland)
The filmmakers take few false (or risky) steps... [Full review in Spanish]

March 28, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Javier Cortijo
Cinemanía (Spain)
Cheesy Euro ballerina-porn cartoon is full of dated animation, cringeworthy attempts at humor, bizarre anachronisms, and a terrible message for little kids.

August 21, 2017 | Rating: 0.5/5 | Full Review…

MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher
Even though it seeks to fit in trying to look like an American animation, its scent of illustrated European children's story is perceived. [Full review in Spanish]

June 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Marcos Gandía
Sensacine
The film, although is full of common places, has its greater interest in the recreation of that Paris and in some choreographies that only the drawing makes possible. [Full review in Spanish]

June 13, 2017 | Full Review…

Fernando Lopez
La Nación (Argentina)
The profound weaknesses of the film are manifested in the characters movements that don't evoke the grace of classical dance and, on the other hand, evidence the limitations of its digital animation. [Full review in Spanish]

June 13, 2017 | Full Review…

Jordi Costa
El Pais (Spain)