Fancy Dance

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Fancy Dance

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2024,

1h 32m,

Drama

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Since her sister's disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki's grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki's mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.

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An urgent drama grounded in its observant depiction of reservation life, Fancy Dance establishes director/co-writer Erica Tremblay as a rising filmmaking talent.

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Roxana Hadadi

New York Magazine/Vulture

Sep 17, 2024

Fancy Dance becomes part coming-of-age story, part road movie, and part revenge thriller with Tremblay effectively guiding Gladstone and Deroy-Olson through the tropes of each subgenre.

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Ty Burr

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Jul 25, 2024

3/4

Fancy Dance toggles between a thriller, a murder mystery, a road movie, and a social drama, and if the shifts aren't always smooth, the fine performances and an undercurrent of fury toward the injustices faced by Indigenous women hold it together.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Jul 13, 2024

It's maybe a little too subtle, but the performances and sense of place are so strong.

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

May 9, 2026

90/100

I liked Gladstone more here than in Killers Of The Flower Moon, because she owns this from start to finish.A commanding performance that shows off her heart and true range. I loved this.

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Marta Medina Pérez

mundoCine

Aug 15, 2025

3.5/5

[Fancy Dance] is a road movie that blends drama and thriller, but finds its emotional strength and works far better when it leans into the drama territory. (...) A celebration of contemporary Native American culture. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Maxance Vincent

FilmSpeak.net

Jul 14, 2025

B+

Fancy Dance never overstays its welcome and ends the way it should — on the film’s terms, after everything Tremblay and Gladstone wanted to cover has been completed.

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Since her sister's disappearance, Jax (Lily Gladstone) has cared for her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of Jax losing custody to Roki's grandfather, Frank (Shea Whigham), the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki's mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world while at the mercy of a failed justice system.

Director: Erica Tremblay
Producer: Deidre Backs, Erica Tremblay, Heather Rae, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Tommy Oliver
Screenwriter: Erica Tremblay, Miciana Alise
Distributor: Apple Original Films
Production Co: Creative Producing Lab, Significant Productions, Directors' Lab, AUM Group, Indigenous Intensive, Confluential Films, Apple TV+, The Sundance Screenwriters' Lab
Rating: R (Some Drug Content|Sexual Material|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 21, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 28, 2024
Runtime: 1h 32m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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