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64
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63
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57
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Center Stage
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some sensuality
Starring
Amanda Schull,
Zoe Saldana,
Susan May Pratt,
and
Peter Gallagher
A drama that follows the hopes and dreams of a tight-knit group of young dance students as they try to make a name for themselves and become stars in the fiercely competitive world of professional dance.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Carol Heikkinen
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Nicholas Hytner
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 24, 2000
Video: October 24, 2000
Theatrical: May 12, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Ultimately the ballet performances, and notably the work of Stiefel, a star with American Ballet Theatre, are the only moments that deserve center stage.

80
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Audiences will leave the theater ready to sign up for some dance classes themselves.

80
Newsweek
Ted Gideonse
The end is predictable after the first five minutes (two, if you're smart), but the film sucks you in all the same.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Grand, juicy fun regardless, tapping as it does into some archetypal pleasure center.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Rarely has a dance movie done so many cinematic pirouettes with such a graceful sense of audience-pleasing fun.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The best dance movie since "Flashdance."
75
Chicago Tribune
Monica Eng
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.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

70
Film.com
Robert Horton
There isn't a sensible reason to recommend this movie, except that its melange of clichés and conventions is embarrassingly enjoyable.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Sexy and infectious in spite of itself.

70
Film.com
Moira Macdonald
A dopey but sweet-natured I-love-to-dance film, fits nicely into the downhill-since-"The-Red-Shoes" tradition of ballet movies.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Aiming to keep it real, the cast of the new dance casserole Center Stage sweats spunk.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
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.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Anybody who's ever laced on toe shoes, or wanted to, will find something to take away from Center Stage.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The story is shallow stuff, but pretty entertaining until it becomes utterly preposterous.

50
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Unfortunately, Center Stage is directed and shot (by Geoffrey Simpson) in a way that doesn't let the audience feel the exhilarating pull of the dance world.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
As a Balanchine-like martinet, Peter Gallagher is a hoot, whispering to his minions about good and bad feet.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
It's so predictable, you can set your watch to when the bulimic will sneak away to the bathroom.
50
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Only really kicks in when it is dancing, which is about half the time.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The cliched script by Carol Heikkinen plays like "Dawson's Creek" in toeshoes.
50
Village Voice
Elizabeth Zimmer
Pays lip service to the seriousness of craft but won't let us watch the dancing.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Comes off as an episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210" where, instead of spoiled rich kids, the characters are all ballet stars in the making.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
The strained romantic plot is a slow fizzle.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Has next to no story beyond some stock clichés about bulimia, stage mothers and internal affairs in the corps de ballet.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
All that artistry is surrounded by a hackish, paint-by-numbers storyline that makes the time between dance numbers seem endless.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Don't like archetypes? Wait till you meet the cliches.

50
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Awkwardly acted.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
An ounce of self-awareness about its almost gleeful use of cliches would have improved this dance soap opera.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
A big disappointment. It's toe-tappin' tripe aimed squarely at the undiscerning Britney Spears set.
38
Charlotte Observer
Joanne Spataro
Despite the fun dancing, sidestep Center Stage.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
All dancing and hugging and no good.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Unlikely to receive many curtain calls.

0
TNT RoughCut
Staff
While movie reviewers like to throw around the line, "This is the worst movie I've ever seen," this movie may be the worst movie I've ever seen.

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