Critically acclaimed Dance movies

The Artist(2011)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.



West Side Story(2021)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.



Gloria Bell(2018)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 87

A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.



Hustlers(2019)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.



House of Flying Daggers(2004)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.



Black Swan(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.



Everybody Wants Some!!(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.



Hairspray(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.



Hail, Caesar!(2016)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.



Frances Ha(2012)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A story that follows as a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment) apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possibility dwindles.



Climax(2018)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 83

French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.



The Fits(2015)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 81

While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.



Zola(2020)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.



Fish Tank(2009)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.



Zola(2020)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.



Suspiria(2018)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.



Girls Trip(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.



The Adjustment Bureau(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.



Ema(2019)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.




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