Rise

It’s a lovely film, filled often with lovely dancers who adjust their dreams accordingly.

The pure joy of creation and artistry. It's sounds so corny when I say the words, but it's presented in such an understated way.

Breezy, charming love letter to the art form [dance], its tight-knit communities, and what nourishes the impulse to find healing expression in movement.

The dance sequences are put together so beautifully that most viewers will easily forgive the story's more cliched aspects.

This is a sweet, uncomplicated story relayed with enough entrancing dance breaks to fill an American halftime show.

Where many directors have their best work behind them, Kaplisch is actually getting better with age and every subsequent film. This feel good dance movie, with a message may be his best movie yet, and most definitely his best looking.

You really don't know where it's going, and when you finally get to that place there's a sense of awe.

While the melodramatic screenplay sometimes feels flat-footed, the film intimately examines the physical and emotional fragility of the ballet world with perception and empathy.

An empowering journey with exhilarating dance sequences, but it's ultimately undercooked and bites off more than it could chew.

A comforting movie, magnificently orchestrated, also mischievous and placid in its indefiniteness, beautiful and playful...