The American
6.9
2024
1 hr 50 min
Drama
American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.
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- Cast：
- Talia Ryder , Diane Kruger , Oleg Ivenko , Natasha Alderslade , Natalia Osipova , Charlotte Ubben , Borys Szyc
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Good concept, poorly executed.
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Boring, long, and too preachy.
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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
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Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
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