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‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ Performs Strictly on Autopilot

Submitted by mattmovieman on August 20, 2010 - 8:51am

Rating: 2.0/5.0

CHICAGO – World-renowned dancer Li Cunxin’s autobiography, “Mao’s Last Dancer,” has been transformed into the type of unimaginative, sentimental tear-jerker that will only move viewers who’ve never seen (or heard of) a movie before. It doesn’t adapt Li’s autobiography so much as stage the SparkNotes version.

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