Born To Dance (2015)

The ruthless dog-eat-dog world of New Zealand's hip-hop dance scene is given a not terribly interesting but good-natured and at times surprisingly touching treatment in this drama about a boy, Tu, who, believing himself destined for bigger New Zealand's Next Top Hip Hop Idol things (bigger than the army recruitment dreams his father holds for him), refuses to give up when someone steals his innovative 'hoodie move'.

★★★☆☆

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Coyote Ugly (2000)

The "Coyote Ugly" bar's Occupational Health and Safety standards are sorely tested by a wannabe songstress so desperate to make a go of her miming skills, she risks strutting up and down the venue's slippery bar juggling glass bottles and then, just when you think her life couldn't get any more out there, she makes the difficult but life-changing decision to karaoke Blondie's One Way Or Another during a bar fight, and pretty soon she's got it all.

★☆☆☆☆

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Moulin Rouge (2001)

After Strictly Ballroom and Romeo and Juliet, Baz Luhrmann's next big breakout success was this showy "jukebox musical", a carry-on set in Paris featuring a forlorn playwright, a pompous Duke financing his play, and the leading lady they both love, and for all its showiness, boisterousness, fandango, and hot air, it is about nothing much at all and suffers dreadfully from the casting of a partucularly low-aspect Nicole Kidman as the focus of so much passion.

★★☆☆☆

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Sucker Punch (2011)

Imprisoned girls in fishnets, stilettos and laced bodices are repeatedly forced to perform a cabaret dance soooo unspeakable it becomes necessary for them to dissociate, disappearing into what Zach Snyder probably imagines are empowering feminist dreamscapes - Bjork music video sequences in which the girls wear fishnets, stilettos and laced bodices and annihilate CGI monsters with ninja skills that back in the real world must be some really good twerking or something.

★☆☆☆☆

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