As kitsch and as corny as anything, this hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy drama is the ideal pick-me-up. I

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 6, 2024

Some of it is cheesy and predictable but overall it’s a success.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2024

It's hard to imagine a more exuberant and sheerly romantic comedy than this Australian import... In its mixture of camp and reality, the film is irresistible.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 11, 2023

This Australian production requires extreme indulgence -- and not the pleasant kind of indulgence, either, the kind in which you feel yourself to be a capital fellow; in this case, you feel that someone has made a fool of you.

| Dec 21, 2022

Strictly Ballroom is a ball -- a buoyant, crowd-pleasing musical with an irreverent wit.

| Dec 21, 2022

Strictly Ballroom contains everything that dancers hate about movies and dancing.

| Apr 6, 2022

It’s a good-humored ride for the senses, never too sickly sweet, and who can say no to that?

| Mar 14, 2022

Even if it all feels a tad forced and not particularly funny (to me at least), there's no denying that it's carried through with a relentless farcical drive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2021

...touching and disarmingly lyrical...

| Feb 6, 2020

It's clear right from the get-go that Luhrmann isn't looking to deviate from the flashiness that would come to define his career...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 17, 2019

A delight.

| Aug 30, 2018

The music ranges from good old-fashioned schmaltz to amplified synthesized elevator stuff, but mostly this mocking celebration of the foxtrot, waltz and rumba is strictly fun, a new-old movie that forces you to tap your feet with joy.

| Jun 4, 2018

Baz Luhrman is nothing short of a national filmmaking treasure.

| Sep 15, 2017

so reserved for Luhrmann as a director, yet it is as fabulous and colorful as any other film out there

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2014

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

A crow-pleaster hat took the inernational festival circuit by storm and put Aussie filmmaker Luhrmann on the map as a talent to watch.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 22, 2011

Listen to the rhythm of your heart in Strictly Ballroom, where tears and laughter blend seamlessly in an extravagantly theatrical story about love, dreams and overcoming your fears.

| Oct 3, 2008

An Australian classic - and deservedly so!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2008

fabulous comedy-romance

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2005