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I think this was a well exicuted movie, the plot was strong, the characters were good, the dancing was excellent. It was nice to see that the dancers were willing to work hard to get what they wanted, with just the right amount of drama.

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Posted aug 21, 2007 6:25 am pt

• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  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.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  80
  Audiences will leave the theater ready to sign up for some dance classes themselves.

  by Jean Oppenheimer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  80
  The end is predictable after the first five minutes (two, if you're smart), but the film sucks you in all the same.

  by Ted Gideonse | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  Grand, juicy fun regardless, tapping as it does into some archetypal pleasure center.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  Rarely has a dance movie done so many cinematic pirouettes with such a graceful sense of audience-pleasing fun.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  The best dance movie since "Flashdance."

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  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 | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  70
  There isn't a sensible reason to recommend this movie, except that its melange of clichés and conventions is embarrassingly enjoyable.

  by Robert Horton | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  Sexy and infectious in spite of itself.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  70
  A dopey but sweet-natured I-love-to-dance film, fits nicely into the downhill-since-"The-Red-Shoes" tradition of ballet movies.

  by Moira Macdonald | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  63
  Aiming to keep it real, the cast of the new dance casserole Center Stage sweats spunk.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  63
  Modestly entertaining when it is engaged in such a celebration onstage, but it trips up when the action moves backstage, where bad dialogue ... lurks in the shadows.

  by Desmond Ryan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  Anybody who's ever laced on toe shoes, or wanted to, will find something to take away from Center Stage.

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  The story is shallow stuff, but pretty entertaining until it becomes utterly preposterous.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »