Step Up: All In 2014

Peter Debruge, Variety: Eager young dance fans will sit through stale storylines as long as the movie can supply fresh moves, and in that department, Sie and her team of three choreographers have it covered. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: It's the rare movie that knows its limitations, but also understands how to use form to best convey its strengths ... Read more

Kyle Anderson, Entertainment Weekly: The dancing is the star of any of these movies, and Sie knows when to get out of the way and let it do the heavy lifting. Read more

Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter: Tthe film could have been written by a dance movie plot generator. Read more

Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times: The film has a muscled buoyancy and thrilling, joyful spectacles that make the fifth installment of the popular franchise an energetic crowd-pleaser. Read more

Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Reuniting, or really, introducing, the gang is a gimmick. It's also self-destructive-cramming in all these characters chokes up the plot, and who watches a Step Up for the plot? Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "All In" is a lesser effort in this franchise, but not without its charms. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times: When the cast isn't dexterously spinning, "All In" turns into a promotional video for Caesars Palace. Read more

Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: Even by the standards of this franchise-and this genre in general-"Step Up All In" is pretty laughable. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Offers up transcendent moments featuring some truly electrifying dancing, but to get to those golden nuggets you have to sift through mounds of terrible writing and laughable acting. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Whatever the other flaws, the dancing itself rarely seems to disappoint in these movies. Read more