A relatively absorbing film with stunning visuals, breath-taking choreography, immersive performances, and some solid commentary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

a story of discovery and freedom about an exquisitely complex man

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2023

…a movie about this potent subject only needs to be halfway good to be watchable, and the legend of Nureyev just about carries the film…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2022

The styling is great, it has a very natural feel.

| Sep 29, 2021

At its strongest, this is a Cold War cat-and-mouse thriller with bite. At its weakest, this is an overly-reverent biopic with an unpleasant protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2021

The White Crow presents a fresh take on [Rudolf Nureyev's] formative years, before he became his legend, in a nuanced, informative and gripping film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2021

If you like a sad but true and triumphant history lesson, or you just love dance, go check out The White Crow. Rudolf Nureyev's story should inspire you.

| Nov 10, 2020

The White Crow winds up falling short as a respectable but not-quite-inspired portrait of an extraordinary talent.

| Oct 15, 2020

A beautifully mounted biography of a fascinating figure in the dance world.

| May 28, 2020

Quite a technical achievement. Beautifully shot and with all authentic or authentic-looking locations...

| Feb 11, 2020

Just like how Pushkin asks why artists plunge so much into their craft, I couldn't help but ask why Fiennes and Hare wanted to tell this story.

| Jan 17, 2020

The White Crow is a decent film giving light to an artist you might not know and humanizes him along the way.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 10, 2020

In the last half-hour, at just about the point that you're as sick of Nureyev as his KGB chaperones must have been, the movie takes off irresistibly as a thriller.

| Jan 7, 2020

The White Crow powerfully suggests that an appetite for appreciating art as well as performing it shaped Nureyev's fluid self.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2019

I am found myself fairly taken in with this just as a [straightforward], good, sensible drama.

| Sep 27, 2019

The White Crow offers up all these elements of Nureyev - his past, his heat, his vulnerabilities - but all those parts are dancing around each other incongruously rather than as a well-choreographed ensemble piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2019

Lacks that passion, spark and danger which made Nureyev such a master.

| Aug 2, 2019

It was probably a much better idea to get a real Russian ballet dancer to play the role rather than an English-speaking actor with a phoney Russian accent and a dance double.

| Jul 31, 2019

...a taut dramatic thriller that is as much about overcoming adversity and the drive of an artist to be free, as it is about Nureyev, the Cold War or ballet.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2019

The solid final 20 minutes of the film demonstrate how strong a director Fiennes can be, but it's a slow, obviously deliberate build up that might test the patience of those who don't have a standing interest in the dancer or of this period in history.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019