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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics

starstarstar Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Gemma Files - Film.com
starstarstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
starstarstar Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstar Nell Minow - MovieMom.com
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstar Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
starstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
star Wesley Morris - SF Examiner

[T]he development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect, and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way

- Roger Ebert

[C]ombines the worst of urbansploitation with the worst of teensploitation, and outfits them both in makings of the ultimate racial-crossover melodrama

- Wesley Morris

Save The Last Dance

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A suburban teen ballerina (Julia Stiles) moves to inner-city Chicago with her estranged father and gives up her dream of attending Juilliard … until she finds a new source of inspiration. Sara Johnson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Terry Kinney, Fredro Starr, Vince Green. Director: Thomas Carter (2000, PG13)

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