Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Benson Lee's crackling 2007 video documentary follows five teams as they compete for a world title, with one amazing number after another showcasing the dancers' chorus-line precision, gymnastic athleticism, and thematic novelty.

| Dec 17, 2008

What they all have in common, as Quik, a member of Japan's Ichigeki Crew, explains, is a passion for the border-busting power dance, movement as a movement, freedom of expression, wild-style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

If Benson Lee's intention with Planet B-Boy was to set the record straight on the continuing story of break dancers, then his documentary has to be counted a success. With a few caveats.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 30, 2008

What's fun about Benson Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy isn't just the amazingly athletic displays of B-boys he puts on screen, but the film's sense of cultural discovery.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2008

If I could, I would spin on my head to express how much I enjoyed Planet B-Boy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2008

The seemingly endless performances can be a bit much, but Lee's sensitivity to the need of these dancers to say something about themselves through dazzling moves is memorable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2008

An exuberant study of the ways competition and collaboration can team up when it comes to the creativity of these guys.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2008

The battles in Benson Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy are exceptional. The movie's not bad, either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2008

The film overflows with displays of explosive dancing and does a superb job showing the form's incredible complexity and technical diversity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2008

[Director] Lee makes a spirited and persuasive case for break dancing, not only as an art form of strength, beauty, discipline and instinct, but as a means of transcending caste and culture.

| Mar 27, 2008

Planet B-Boy pays fitting homage to both breakers' impressive dance skills and the roots of hip-hop culture. Agile camerawork propels the narrative at a brisk pace, and crisp editing synchs rhythmically with the score's propulsive beat.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2008

Still, from moment to moment, Planet B-Boy is fun, sometimes thrilling and packed with illuminating details and striking personalities

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2008

Though he doesn't break any new documentary ground, Lee knows how to shoot his subjects. Their stories are moving, and their moves are thrilling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2008

The break-dancing documentary Planet B-Boy proves that what might be (but probably isn't) worth five minutes of your time while you're passing through the Times Square subway station really isn't worth a 11/2-hour movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Lee does a decent job making us care for the squads, but he does his film a better service just by pointing his camera at the breath-taking contortions of the human body.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 20, 2008

Often exhilarating docu charts several breakdancing crews' path to the Battle of the Year, which hosts national winners from 18 countries -- not excluding Israel, Belgium or Latvia -- in dazzling competitive displays.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2008

Notoriety and financial reward are hard to come by in the world of b-boying, a reality illuminated by Benson Lee's documentary.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2008

Director Benson Lee makes sure to serve up his topic's key points, but only in easy-to-digest bites that eschew any real investigation into the movement's history, pioneers, influences, and multicultural variations.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 17, 2008