Billy Elliot Critic Reviews
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People who see it may feel like dancing out of the theater afterward. Go for it.Read the full review
Strikes a delicate balance of comedy and pathos with an uplifting final act that delivers a resoundingly satisfying emotional payoff.Read the full review
Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.Read the full review
Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world.Read the full review
You'd be hard-pressed to find a purer expression of rapture in a film this year than the one that opens Billy Elliot.Read the full review
Anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism.Read the full review
As much parable and fantasy as it is realistic.Read the full review
Even as the director, Stephen Daldry, places his star front and center, he doesn't know how to highlight him.Read the full review
In its determination to overdo sure-fire material, Billy Elliot becomes as impossible to wholeheartedly embrace as it is to completely reject.Read the full review
There's too much miserable reality and not a lot of transcendent dance, and the director, Stephen Daldry, doesn't cover the action from enough angles.Read the full review
