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Richard Corliss, Time: EXCELLENT "Wenders' use of [3D] is essential to 'Pina'; his gliding camera lures the viewer into the dance space as a virtual participant in the action.... Thanks to [Bausch's] hurtling, capacious vision, and Wenders' artful fidelity, 'Pina' is, in every way, a moving experience." (Read the full review...) 1,124 words, 12/30/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Wenders uses this old/new, interesting/gimmicky technology to play with the human perception of dimensionality as something subtle and profound, and not just a snazzy trick. The result, in 'Pina,' is... wow." (Read the full review...) 232 words, 01/06/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I watched the film in a sort of reverie. The dancers seemed particularly absorbed. They had performed these dances many times before, but always with Pina Bausch present. Now they were on their own, in homage." (Read the full review...) 604 words, 01/20/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "Choreography is a notoriously perishable art. Dances often struggle to outlive their creators.... 'Pina' is, above all, an act of preservation, a memorial that is also a defiance of mortality -- completely alive in every dimension." (Read the full review...) 562 words, 12/23/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Wenders, who uses 3-D technology to marvelous, surprising effect, clearly believes that all we need to know is in [Pina Bausch's] work... As a result, the film is best suited for dance buffs excited by an unexpected congregation of artistic pioneers." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 12/23/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the most exciting use of 3-D since 'Avatar.' The performance documentary takes us inside Bausch's extraordinary dances in a way that nothing else could." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 01/13/12 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a visual delight. It should appeal to dance mavens, and to folks who have no idea what a pas de deux is." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 12/23/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...magnificent.... 'Pina' is the best possible tribute to Bausch, and to adventurous image-making." (Read the full review...) 404 words, 01/20/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Wenders eschews conventional narrative and biopic boilerplate, and looks for Bausch through her dance. The performances are captivating, and the filmmaking first-rate." (Read the full review...) 224 words, 02/17/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I watched the film in a sort of reverie. The dancers seemed particularly absorbed. They had performed these dances many times before, but always with Pina Bausch present. Now they were on their own, in homage." (Read the full review...) 604 words, 01/20/12 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting. Wenders's expert use of 3-D puts viewers up close..." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 12/21/11 Greg Quill, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) " 'Pina' is a benchmark achievement, and for his mastery of the mechanics that bring it to life, Wenders deserves a place with the great film visionaries of this or any other time." (Read the full review...) 560 words, 12/23/11 Guy Dixon, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Not only does 'Pina' excel in recording the modern dance dynamically, making it all the more accessible - it lifts Bausch's compelling, beautiful work onto an entirely new stage." (Read the full review...) 508 words, 12/30/11 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Even if you think this couldn't possibly be your thing, give it a chance. At the very least, it's one of a precious few recent 3-D films in which the extra dimension feels expansive rather than distracting." (Read the full review...) 209 words, 11/03/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...[a] magnificent homage to dance great Pina Bausch... The performers, interviewed in unconventional ways - we see them, but hear them on a separate track - recall Bausch with affection and intelligence. Of course, they communicate best through dance." (Read the full review...) 127 words, 12/15/11
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "You might call it arresting or spectacular, heart-rending or thrilling. But, as Bausch knew, none of the usual descriptors can do justice to the object. This is one film that just needs to be experienced." (Read the full review...) 482 words, 01/27/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A dance movie that brings the audience to the performance in a way a traditional documentary could never do - and in ways that even being in a theater, watching live, won't accomplish... not to be missed." (Read the full review...) 316 words, 01/27/12 Caroline Palmer, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a remarkable -- and likely enduring -- tribute to an artist committed to creating dance theater drawn from humanity's deepest physical and emotional reserves." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/10/12 Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "Her advice for one of her dancers getting ready to go onstage: 'Don't forget, you have to scare me.' Bausch's art is one of love, pain, joy, loss and loneliness..." (Read the full review...) 660 words, 02/10/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an inspired simulacrum - a jewel-box that contains more of Bausch's kinetic soul than film has any right to. It's a parting gift from one artist to another." (Read the full review...) 751 words, 01/20/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Wenders lets the shots breathe in long takes, which is the only way to film dance and is the best way to use 3-D." (Read the full review...) 421 words, 01/20/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A unique and often sublime artistic experience... a 3-D dance film that immerses us in the movement, letting us feel that we could reach out and touch these dancers as they float past us." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 02/10/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...so exquisitely made and filled with such powerful beauty, it suggests thrilling new possibilities for the marriage of movies and dance." (Read the full review...) 252 words, 01/27/12 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a celebration of life." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/10/12 Jordan Levin, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...masterful... 'Pina's' power comes from the way Wenders uses that illusion of living, flexing proximity to immerse you in Bausch's dreamlike, emotionally vertiginous world." (Read the full review...) 642 words, 02/17/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: EXCELLENT "...gives us the supreme pleasure of watching fascinating bodies of widely varying ages in motion, whether leaping, falling, catching, diving, grieving, or exulting. Wenders's expert use of 3-D puts viewers up close..." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 12/21/11 Ann Lewinson, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a milestone in dance and 3D filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 153 words, 01/19/12 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Even if you think this couldn't possibly be your thing, give it a chance. At the very least, it's one of a precious few recent 3-D films in which the extra dimension feels expansive rather than distracting." (Read the full review...) 209 words, 11/03/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "Bausch's work is as original as advertised, with staging that involves the addition of obstacles to the dancefloor: dirt, say, or a huge rock, or pouring water." (Read the full review...) 250 words, 09/09/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "There's vast grace and beauty here, but there's also evidence of how dancers put their bodies to work.... [Wenders] has made a movie the way choreographers and dancers make a dance: With muscle and with heart." (Read the full review...) 838 words, 12/21/11 Jaime N. Christley, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "Believe [Wenders's] words or watch the screen and 'Pina' is just a document, with no auteur-derived interference standing between you and the immersive, theatrical experience of Bausch's works." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 10/16/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...[a] magnificent homage to dance great Pina Bausch... The performers, interviewed in unconventional ways - we see them, but hear them on a separate track - recall Bausch with affection and intelligence. Of course, they communicate best through dance." (Read the full review...) 127 words, 12/15/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's unquestionably a sincere and heartfelt homage, but audiences who don't know about Bausch may be disappointed that the film stints on biographical information." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 02/15/12
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Using 3-D was a stroke of genius.... The images captured by the film -- dancers in theatrical sets, dancers in surreal exterior settings -- are deeply scary for their loneliness and pain, and crazily thrilling for the intensity of their joy." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 01/13/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "Choreography is a notoriously perishable art. Dances often struggle to outlive their creators.... 'Pina' is, above all, an act of preservation, a memorial that is also a defiance of mortality -- completely alive in every dimension." (Read the full review...) 562 words, 12/23/11 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: OUTSTANDING "You can trawl through cinema and find few more beautiful, more unforced, or more fleeting representations of the bourn between the living and the dead.... What is unambiguous is the campaign that 'Pina' mounts, with joy and without fuss, against age discrimination..." (Read the full review...) 1,298 words, 12/12/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the most exciting use of 3-D since 'Avatar.' The performance documentary takes us inside Bausch's extraordinary dances in a way that nothing else could." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 01/13/12 Daniel Engber, Slate: OUTSTANDING "...does more than mimic the experience of being in the audience. It brings us out of our seats and onto the stage; it allows us to duck between the dancers and hover next to them... a triumph..." (Read the full review...) 1,086 words, 12/22/11
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: GOOD "A tribute to Pina Bausch, one of modern dance's most groundbreaking choreographers... lets the artist's work speak for itself via big, juicy slabs of performance." (Read the full review...) 841 words, 02/13/11 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...captures Bausch's oeuvre with grace and assurance, mirroring its modernity in a striking, idiosyncratic use of the 3D format.... Wenders favors the stylistic device of making foreground figures stand out sharply from a deep background, giving the film a modern, painterly look." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 02/14/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...the most exciting use of 3-D since 'Avatar.' The performance documentary takes us inside Bausch's extraordinary dances in a way that nothing else could." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 01/13/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...intriguing and fascinating... [Wenders's] goal was to place the viewers right at the center and deep inside Bausch's playful, inventive, and thrillingly unpredictable pieces.... the most personal, intimate, and haunting dance film I have ever seen, including 'The Red Shoes.' " (Read the full review...) 666 words, 09/15/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "Choreography is a notoriously perishable art. Dances often struggle to outlive their creators.... 'Pina' is, above all, an act of preservation, a memorial that is also a defiance of mortality -- completely alive in every dimension." (Read the full review...) 562 words, 12/23/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "Using 3-D was a stroke of genius.... The images captured by the film -- dancers in theatrical sets, dancers in surreal exterior settings -- are deeply scary for their loneliness and pain, and crazily thrilling for the intensity of their joy." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 01/13/12
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