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Red Shoes, The (1948) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Red Shoes, The (1948) a score of 3.7444 out of 4

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MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)

The first ninety minutes are really something special. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at MovieMartyr.com (Jeremy Heilman)

Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review Database (--)

Musician Julian Craster and ballerina Victoria Page become apprentices with the ballet company of the autocratic Boris Lermontov. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review Database (--)

Movie Reviews UK (--)

Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Red Shoes provides the centrepiece around which a tale of love and betrayal is built, all set within the famed Lermontov Ballet Company. From the outset the atmosphere of music, dance and acting descends, when ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Movie Reviews UK (--)

eFilmCritic.com (--)

The hottest redhead you are ever going to see descends into psychedelic delirium in this widely overlooked gem from our friends in limey-land. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at eFilmCritic.com (--)

TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

Magical. Although THE RED SHOES is the ultimate ballet film, you don't have to be a balletomane to enjoy this backstage love story distinguished by glorious dancing, superb acting, and masterful direction. After the successful staging of a new ballet, ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)

Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)

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Filmchaw (Andrew Moxon)

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Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)

One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking films I have ever seen. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger direct and write one of the great ballet melodramas of all time. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaborated as director and writer on a whole series of films through the forties and fifties, but The Red Shoes is perhaps the most breathtaking of them all. The accomplishment here is nearly otherwordly, and even ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

Effortlessly combines the freedom of a Disney animated feature, the grace of ballet, the inventiveness of Citizen Kane , the truth of a documentary and the magic of movies. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)

Classic Film Guide (--)

Directed and written by frequent collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (49th Parallel (1941)), who adapted it from a Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, this essential drama is the story of a young woman (Moira Shearer, in her film debut) ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Classic Film Guide (--)

New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

Over the years, there have been several movies in which attempts have been made to capture the spirit and the beauty, the romance and the enchantment of the ballet. And, inevitably, in these pictures, ballets have been performed, a few times with charm ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at New York Times (Bosley Crowther)

Time Out (--)

An outline, a rather over-determined melodrama set in the ballet world: impresario (Walbrook) 'discovers' dancer (Shearer), and makes her a slave to her art, until young composer (Goring) turns up to offer her a lifeline back to reality. But in ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Time Out (--)

Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Cox)

In Hans Christian Andersen's fairy story Karen puts on a pair of red shoes, is compelled to start dancing and is unable to stop. ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Cox)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

There is tension between two kinds of stories in "The Red Shoes," and that tension helps make it the most popular movie ever made about the ballet and one of the most enigmatic movies about anything. One story could be a Hollywood musical: A young ...read the complete Red Shoes movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

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