All is resolved in laughter and kisses, with both women accepting their different lives in a way which I think we're supposed to see as mature. It was certainly far too cosy for me.

| Sep 22, 2021

The conflicts and melodrama are too straightforward and anticipated to have an impact beyond the closing credits; it's a superbly-acted yet tragically small picture.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 31, 2020

The role of Deedee gives Shirley MacLaine her best role in many a year and she is superb. Anne Bancroft as Emma is stunning, and when the two women team up for a 7-minute confrontation scene, the screen almost shoots sparks.

| May 29, 2020

Closely observed The Turning Point presents an interesting set of alternatives.

| Apr 27, 2020

Herbert Ross' The Turning Point may not be the first movie ever to have utilized the background of the ballet world, nor even the definitive one, but it is the first to have used exhaustively and intelligently.

| Oct 17, 2019

An engrossing, uplifting experience, that manages also to be constantly entertaining.

| Oct 1, 2019

The Turning Point lacks a script. Herbert Ross is more than an acceptable director... but here he vacillates between making a melodrama or a documentary about ballet. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 1, 2019

One is reminded anew of the satisfaction to be derived from waiting for something to be done the right way.

| May 9, 2017

Well-acted '70s dance drama has sex, mature themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2016

A well-made soap opera with a story that right out of a 1930s backstage musical.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2012

You yield to The Turning Point relucantly, knowing well that it is conning you -- with sentiment, with flamboyance, with sheer slickness.

| Jan 30, 2012

For a film ostensibly dedicated to physical grace, Ross's images are unforgivably clumsy.

| Jan 30, 2012

What stands out are the ballet performances.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 10, 2010

The Turning Point is one of the best films of its era.

| Jul 22, 2008

Though made in 1977, this strained effort tries to combine a 1940s woman's picture with backstage melodrama set in the modern ballet world.

| Original Score: C | Dec 22, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2006

A glorified made-for-Lifetime-cable movie.

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2006

There's some beautiful dancing and a wealth of detail about the world of classical ballet.

| Feb 9, 2006

moving drama

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2005

The Turning Point is entertaining, not for discovering new material, but for treating old material with style and romantic feeling that, in this day and age, seem remarkably unafraid.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2005