The White Crow's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Lovely, elegant, and curiously opaque (...). The film?s many ballet scenes are stunning, to say the least.
Empire
By the time the film straightens itself out into a compelling last 20 minutes, you can?t help thinking that simpler might have been better.
The Guardian
Dance is represented as a transcendental experience of success, of leaving behind the past and reinventing the future (...). An athletic, confident, undemanding film.
The Hollywood Reporter
The narrative bounces all over the place trying to cover too much ground when concentrating on the core drama would have far better served the desired end.
Screen Daily
The cluttered structure, littered with brusque little flashbacks, repeatedly interrupts the momentum and tension of the story of Nureyev?s most daring leap.