PinaMovie Reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Charlotte Observer | Lawrence Toppman

    Most documentaries put us inside people's heads. The dazzling, experimental Pina puts us inside people's feet. Read full review

  • 100
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Calvin Wilson

    The result, Pina, is the most spirited and spectacular film about dance since Robert Altman's "The Company." Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    In both theatrical environments and open-air ones, with Wenders paying close attention to the geometrics as well as the psychology of the movement, Pina is the best possible tribute to Bausch, and to adventurous image-making. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The result, in Pina, is...wow. Read full review

  • 100
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    The real 3-D experience of the season is Pina, Wim Wenders' shockingly beautiful and moving tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch. Read full review

  • 90
    Movieline | Stephanie Zacharek

    What's remarkable about Pina is how democratic it is, how casual it is about opening up the world of modern dance to people who know, or perhaps care, little about it. Read full review

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    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 full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Wim Wenders' stylish 3D mirrors the bizarrely captivating world of choreographer Pina Bausch. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Where Pina excels - where it resembles no previous dance film - is in the staging of several of Bausch's signature works for Wenders's cameras. Read full review

  • 60
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    The film is best suited for dance buffs excited by an unexpected congregation of artistic pioneers. Read full review

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