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Slate | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

For all its flaws, Dreamgirls is what this holiday season needs. It's a big, fat, luscious movie in which no one is tortured, murdered, or mutilated (honestly, how many recent films can you say that about?).Read the full review

Variety | David RooneyAdd Critic to Favorites

Finally. After "The Phantom of the Opera," "Rent" and "The Producers" botched the transfer from stage to screen, Dreamgirls gets it right. Bill Condon's adaptation of the 1981 show about a Motown trio's climb to crossover stardom pulls off the fundamental double-act those three musical pics all missed: It stays true to the source material while standing on its own as a fully reimagined movie.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Dreamgirls is the entire musical package, a triumph of old school on-screen glamour, and we wouldn't want it any other way.Read the full review

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