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

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Apr 26, 2019 3 minutes

    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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