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Huff Post Review: A Trio of Films Offer Inspiration, but Only Two Deliver

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Li Cunxin, Nanny McPhee Returns, Mao's Last Dancer, Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bruce Beresford, China, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

That Eat Pray Love failed to perform elevated the other pair of films by comparison -- both Nanny McPhee Returns and Mao's Last Dancer satisfied for very different reasons.

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Movie Review: Mao's Last Dancer

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Li Cunxin, Ben Stevenson, Bruce Greenwood, Jan Sardi, Chi Cao, Mao's Last Dancer Movie Review, Bruce Beresford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Houston Ballet, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Kyle MacLachlan, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I once had an editor question whether I meant it as an insult when I referred to a film as "middlebrow." The answer was yes. Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer is a middlebrow film.

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