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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 21 Aug 2017

By Abby Olcese (108) for Sojourners (77) on 16 Aug 2017

However, there is much about director Amanda Lipitz's movie that feels surface level, a trait that feels particularly troubling when her subjects…

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By Kathleen Rizzo Young (17) for Buffalo News (278) on 16 Aug 2017

So, who should see this documentary? Fans of dance. Girls. Teachers. Parents. Kids. In short, anyone who wants to be inspired and touched…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 16 Aug 2017

Lipitz presents their stories in a crowd-pleasing, readily digestible package that would be unforgivably manipulative if it weren't so earnest…

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By Janet Smith (81) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 15 Aug 2017

Step is about dance like Hoop Dreams was about basketball…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 13 Aug 2017

There are telling and touching moments, but we've come to see, over the years, that it's quite easy to find an involving story in any formal…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 12 Aug 2017

Certainly Lipitz herself goes deep into a first-time filmmaker's bag of tricks and somehow takes all the right steps, too…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 12 Aug 2017

It's not unreasonable to assume that the title doesn't refer to this chosen form of dancing as much as it refers to the steps each girl must…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 12 Aug 2017

There's a slickness to this storytelling that makes everything feel slightly fraudulent, even if it isn't. And yet I kind of loved it…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 11 Aug 2017

Look deeper, beyond the plethora of feel-good tropes, and you'll find something startling raw and worrisome about a large segment of society…

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By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 10 Aug 2017

There are crowd pleasers, and then there is Step…

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By Stephen Schaefer (147) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 10 Aug 2017

Impossibly upbeat and as real as a movie can get, Step could not be more emotionally wrenching as it chronicles 19 inner-city Baltimore students…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 10 Aug 2017

No movie has lifted up my soul this year as much as this one has. No movie has had me crying tears of pure joy in quite the volume this one has…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 10 Aug 2017

A few quick question-and-answer chats could enlighten us, but Lipitz seems content to just observe…

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By Terry Staunton (141) for Radio Times (2,421) on 10 Aug 2017

A film that will have you dabbing away tears and screaming with joy, and leave you hungry to watch it all over again…

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By Demetrios Matheou (85) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 10 Aug 2017

The portrait of the girls, their hard-up but loving parents (two are single mums, men being conspicuous by their absence) and the school staff…

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By Gayle Macdonald (21) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 10 Aug 2017

The mentors and the mothers are just as important as the dance routines. Step is a story about relationships…

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