This unintentionally hilarious variant on the time-old high school/college/'Fame' staple features some of the most rote storytelling and characterisation going.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2018

Melodramatic, a bit racy -- some teens will love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Assuming that every generation needs its own dance film, Hytner revists the turf of films like Turning Point (classic ballet), Chrous Line (Broadway dancing) and Saturday Night Fever (disco) and blends together their themes and persona to little effect.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2006

If I was a 12 year old girl who takes any sort of dance classes, this would be my favorite film of all time...but I'm not.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 31, 2005

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

...not only insultingly stupid but weirdly dull.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Aug 8, 2002

Ethan Steifel's unforgettable dancing seems to defy the laws of gravity -- and without computerized special effects.

| Aug 2, 2002

Does one kid turn out to be bulimic? Does someone proclaim, "I'm not dancing for them anymore -- I'm dancing for myself"? You need not see "Center Stage" to correctly guess the answers to those questions.

| Jun 23, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Offers insights into the rigors, foibles, physical pain, and competitiveness in the modern world of ballet.

| Mar 16, 2002

Center Stage proves that it's hard to make a bad dance movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2001

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

[Hytner's] widescreen direction of the many dance sequences has a snap to it the likes of which hasn't been seen in studio musical filmmaking for years.

| Original Score: B | Mar 19, 2001

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2001

The aim of the film was to be entertaining, the art part it dumbed down for mass consumption.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2000