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HOW SHE MOVE Rutina Wesley seeks upward mobility through dance
Sophie Giraud
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Release Date: Jan 25, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 98 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Tre Armstrong and Rutina Wesley
B+
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
She move good! The specificity of Caribbean-Canadian life in a low-income, multiethnic Toronto neighborhood gives How She Move, a pleasantly conventional story of striving and step dancing, its flavor. Plus, the moves — more gymnastically hybrid than those in Stomp the Yard — are fierce, especially as set to a pounding soundtrack by Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes, among others. Rutina Wesley glowers with just the right touch of sweetness as a brainy student (and stellar after-school stepper) who needs to learn how to honor her old hood even as she studies hard to move on out. B+
Posted Jan 23, 2008
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