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Clumsily staged and brimming with melodrama and trite self-help cliches, this dance movie stays stuck at amateur level.
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Miller has all but smothered the charm right out of his Charm School. Apr 28, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Miller has all but smothered the charm right out of his Charm School.
Roger Moore
The picture trivializes the characters, hinting at depths it can't depict, aiming at a profundity of feeling it can't begin to reach. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The picture trivializes the characters, hinting at depths it can't depict, aiming at a profundity of feeling it can't begin to reach.
Mick LaSalle
Beyond Wahlberg's deft moves, School's dancing is leaden, not charming, and the only challenge is enduring the film's lumbering progress until it finally clicks at the end. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Beyond Wahlberg's deft moves, School's dancing is leaden, not charming, and the only challenge is enduring the film's lumbering progress until it finally clicks at the end.
Bruce Westbrook
Predictable and decidedly old-fashioned in its sensibility, the film is likely to win over audiences if not critics. Apr 8, 2006
Predictable and decidedly old-fashioned in its sensibility, the film is likely to win over audiences if not critics.
James Greenberg
While it's at times too melodramatic and formulaic to be entirely successful, it still holds some appeal; its very amateurishness is what makes it charming. Apr 7, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
While it's at times too melodramatic and formulaic to be entirely successful, it still holds some appeal; its very amateurishness is what makes it charming.
Moira MacDonald
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School may stumble at times, but at least it gets out on the dance floor and has a good time. Apr 7, 2006 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School may stumble at times, but at least it gets out on the dance floor and has a good time.
Tom Long
Yet another ballroom dancing movie presents dance as a universal balm that heals life's problems in this mildly inspired dramatic comedy. Apr 19, 2009 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Yet another ballroom dancing movie presents dance as a universal balm that heals life's problems in this mildly inspired dramatic comedy.
Cole Smithey
Why would Frank drop everything to embark on this lunatic mission? Well, the answer is simple. If he didn't, there would be no movie - and perhaps that wouldn't have been such a bad thing. Jul 19, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Why would Frank drop everything to embark on this lunatic mission? Well, the answer is simple. If he didn't, there would be no movie - and perhaps that wouldn't have been such a bad thing.
Rossiter Drake
A surprisingly-moving message movie about love and redemption filled with sentimental and transformational moments leading to tearjerker of a finale. Jul 7, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A surprisingly-moving message movie about love and redemption filled with sentimental and transformational moments leading to tearjerker of a finale.
Kam Williams
A miscast hodgepodge of a genre stew. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
A miscast hodgepodge of a genre stew.
Doris Toumarkine
Utterly charming. Aug 26, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Utterly charming.
David N. Butterworth
That the film was itself borne out of risk invests its message with an honesty and an authenticity more than sufficient to offset its flaws. Aug 26, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
That the film was itself borne out of risk invests its message with an honesty and an authenticity more than sufficient to offset its flaws.
Wade Major
Totally cute and funny.
Super Reviewer
Great movie. Good story plot that follows a grieving baker who connects with a total stranger's story about ballroom dancing. Great cast. Definitely worthy.
Stars for having such a great cast. John Goodman plays a memorable character, and it has Ernie Hudson so you know you want some.
I absolutely ADORE Mary Steenburgen but she is a horrible dancer. Carlyle was excellent. Rest of film was farfetched and flighty.
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