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Review: 'The White Crow' is a classic look at volcanic dancer Rudolf Nureyev

Subject and style could not be more different than in "The White Crow," but that fusion of opposites has resulted in an involving biographical drama that rarely puts a foot wrong.

Speaking of feet, the subject is Rudolf Nureyev, a dancer to conjure with, a superstar/sacred monster who changed the very nature of ballet, the first major Soviet artist to defect to the West and a man who had, a biographer wrote, "an innate sense that borders

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