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Bruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the dancing is pure caviar. Sep 21, 2010 | Full Review…
Bruce Beresford's biopic of Li Cunxin, the Chinese ballet dancer who defected while on a student visa in Houston in 1981, is sometimes the movie equivalent of Oscar Meyer cold cuts. But the dancing is pure caviar.
Jonathan F. Richards
Feel-good movie about a Chinese dancer presses all the right buttons. Sep 10, 2010
Feel-good movie about a Chinese dancer presses all the right buttons.
Peter Brunette
Australian director Bruce Beresford handles the culture-clash aspects of the story with a surprising lack of subtlety. Sep 3, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Australian director Bruce Beresford handles the culture-clash aspects of the story with a surprising lack of subtlety.
Joe Williams
Lovely and astounding, Mao's Last Dancer is a modern epic of art and ambition triumphing oppression. Aug 27, 2010 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Lovely and astounding, Mao's Last Dancer is a modern epic of art and ambition triumphing oppression.
Tom Long
Too often, though, the film plods along on the ground. Aug 27, 2010 | Full Review…
Too often, though, the film plods along on the ground.
Peter Rainer
Ballet star Li Cunxin's best-selling autobiography gets a curiously tepid treatment in this 2009 adaptation by director Bruce Beresford. Aug 27, 2010 | Full Review…
Ballet star Li Cunxin's best-selling autobiography gets a curiously tepid treatment in this 2009 adaptation by director Bruce Beresford.
Andrea Gronvall
a sweeping story that has many ups and downs, with some pretty noticeable changes in tone and pace Oct 2, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
a sweeping story that has many ups and downs, with some pretty noticeable changes in tone and pace
Kevin Carr
Missteps prevent ballet drama from reaching great heights. Dec 24, 2010 | Rating: 3.5 | Full Review…
Missteps prevent ballet drama from reaching great heights.
Don Groves
...somehow makes the extraordinary true story it's based on seem like common corn while succeeding in modest ways. Oct 15, 2010 | Rating: 86/100 | Full Review…
...somehow makes the extraordinary true story it's based on seem like common corn while succeeding in modest ways.
Philip Martin
Woefully creaky and corny. Oct 12, 2010 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Woefully creaky and corny.
Nick Schager
The script is far too melodramatic, and the performances ... are hamfisted and overwrought. Oct 8, 2010 | Rating: 2/4
The script is far too melodramatic, and the performances ... are hamfisted and overwrought.
Sean P. Means
Mao's Last Dancer is such a profoundly moving story, it's hard not to get drawn in as Li must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice for his American dream. Sep 30, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Mao's Last Dancer is such a profoundly moving story, it's hard not to get drawn in as Li must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice for his American dream.
Graham Killeen
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