Cute romance that is marred by homophobia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

It's rather cute, but only the truly girly will fall for the decidedly Officer And A Gentlemanly denouement that injects a belated sexy note.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Offers attractive, inoffensive characters and a smattering of broad laughs, but it fails to use its potential to explore weightier themes such as John's mid-life crisis.

| Jun 24, 2006

Shall We Dance? stumbles into a tight corner between comedy and romance, failing to satisfy on either count.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2005

Now, twenty-six years after his theatrical debut, Gere gives what just might be his most bewitching performance to date, enlivening a picture to heights it would not have achieved without him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Under the clunky direction of Peter Chelsom, while forced to mouth inane dialogue by Audrey Wells ... a swell bunch of troupers get mangled in a monsoon of clichs.

| Oct 21, 2004

It's hard not to get caught up in this film, despite its many flaws, primarily because Gere makes for a sympathetic figure, a middle-aged man just wanting to feel something new in the autumn of his life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2004

There are so many appealing performers in Shall We Dance? that it's a crime the director, Peter Chelsom, and the screenwriter, Audrey Wells, haven't given them more to do.

| Oct 19, 2004

Occasionally charming but ultimately forgettable bit of fox-trot fluff.

| Oct 15, 2004

Takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good Big Stupid American movie.

| Oct 15, 2004

Turns a sweet, lilting story into a clunky, clichd and tedious movie sitcom.

| Oct 15, 2004

The original remains the standard, and it's a far deeper work, but this paint-by-numbers project manages to get by on its good humour and undeniably entertaining ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2004

This mildly entertaining bauble will disappear from your memory even before you've dislodged the last popcorn husks from your back teeth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2004

Where the original soared, the new version hugs the ground. It's like the difference between Fred Astaire's dancing and Richard Gere's.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2004

Miscast, misguided and woefully misbegotten, this clumsy American remake of the deftly delicate 1996 sleeper hit from Japan is too blah to bludgeon.

Full Review | Oct 15, 2004

The central idea -- that losing yourself in a small, private world can help you to better engage the larger world -- isn't lost in translation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2004

There isn't even any exciting dancing here, and what hoofing there is has been heavily edited, usually with the dancers' feet cropped off.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2004

A comedy with two left feet.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 15, 2004

A sleek Hollywood crowd-pleaser, more movie than art film, but its makers have wisely stuck not only to the spirit but often even to the letter of the original.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2004

A funny, well-acted adult tale about the difficulty of holding onto happiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2004