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August Rush
2008
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August Rush
Positive Reviews
22
Negative reviews
27
Average Rating
2.5
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1.5
Simultaneously swooningly romantic and transcendently idiotic, August Rush casts Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a gaunt faced bar rocker who meets cute with ..
Av Club
4.5
After the Oscar legitimacy of his ode to Douglas Sirk, Far From Heaven, Haynes couldve burrowed deeper underground or sold out entirely: Instead, hes ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Not exactly what Id expected from the director of the woefully underseen Trainspotting meets Teletubbies macropiece Disco Pigs.Instead, August Rush is ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Those who are prepared to forgive the film its stock characters and lack of emotional subtlety may allow themselves to be ravished by the sumptuous so ..
Screen Daily
3.0
Truly dreamy, with loads of great music and stunning visuals, this is predictable, yet watchable fare.
ETimes (TOI)
3.8
Here is a movie drenched in sentimentality, but its supposed to be.
Rogerebert
1.8
The cinematic flair of August Rush is not applied by paint strokes, but via a sopping wet roller.
E Film Critic
1.9
It would be nice to say this predictable fantasy has such a big heart, we can forgive its excesses.
Ny Daily News
2.5
The film is fueled by its high octane music, composed by Mark Mancina, who blends ambient sound with gospel, classical and rock.With its musical theme ..
Philly
2.5
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
4.0
The movie also teaches us that we all need mentors to cheer us on so that the magic of the music can lead us where it wants us to go.And, most importa ..
Spirituality And Practice
1.5
If you believe that, I can get you a good price on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Sover
1.9
odd, quasi mystical movie thats too silly for adults to take seriously and frankly too weird for kids.
Tv Guide
0.6
Russell and Rhys Meyers look like theyre posing for makeup ads rather than giving performances.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
There are simply too many unnecessary elements at play here, and while the story is meant to be partially a fairy tale (one would hope), its fantasy i ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
A lot like a conventional musical, but the story is not conventional, it is mystically romantic.
Lariat
2.2
Unfortunately, its exertions are too obvious, its story too contrived for us to swallow it.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
The film is loaded with little touches that elicit outright laughter rather than the tender, knowing emotion the filmmakers were clearly yearning for.
Shadows On The Wall
1.0
If you want a music themed emotional drama, rent Mr Hollands Opus instead.
View London
1.8
Director Kirsten Sheridan directs in a close up heavy, ga ga style that at least is in keeping with the ga ga script.But such a script!
Cs Monitor
4.0
The musical miracles dont end therenot in this egregiously self indulgent and mawkish fairy tale.
Film Journal
1.9
This would have been fine as juicy trashy melodrama.But the director, Kirsten Sheridan, and the screenwriters, Nick Castle and James V. Hart, dont wan ..
Boston
3.0
But it is a failure.Oh, there are good aspects to the filmeven some very fine momentsand there are intimations of the great film it might have been.
Mountain X
2.5
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Emanuellevy
4.0
Overly sentimental it may be, but August Rush took me quite willingly to a cinematic world full of music and hope.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.0
Unapologetically preposterous, but it is a (very sweet) fairy tale and Highmore is captivating.
Empire
2.8
Look, I understand that this is supposed to be a heartwarming fairy tale.
Movies
1.3
Coincidences pile on, behavior and motivations defy logic, and the characters are so thinly drawn that most of the cast is at a loss.
Sf Gate
3.0
Self confessed hopeless romantics and anyone with a cinematic sweet tooth will be sure to appreciate August Rush, an uplifting but schmaltzy fantasy.
Bbc
1.5
And how they get involuntarily separated is just one of the almost unbearable contrivances that permeate this movie.
Washington Post
2.5
Just as the viewers heart is intended to soar, mine was left lukewarm and wishing that it cared more.
The Movie Boy
2.0
I cant remember the last time I saw a movie hedge its bets so frequently, and for no reason.
Bullz-Eye
3.5
Production design and locations a from Carnegie Hall to Central Parkas Great Lawn to the battered Fillmore East Theater and more of New York City a ad ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Highmore is a wonder.The rest of the cast hits that perfect middle ground between magic and groundedness, too.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Love conquers all, music brings people together and the movie does everything it can to make this miracle seem dull and commonplace.
Las Vegas Weekly
1.3
Big melodramas are supposed to build to a hugely satisfying final scene; August Rush ends with a proverbial whimper.
ReelViews
2.5
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
3.2
In the end, this could be the years most sharply defined love it or hate it movie.Romantics and New Age believers in the divinity of music will eat it ..
Seattle Pi
1.3
Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous, its a movie that definitely deserves its reward.
The Star
2.5
This is hardly an ideal Hollywood debut for director Kirsten Sheridan, the daughter of multiple Oscar nominated filmmaker Jim Sheridan.
Deseret News
3.0
Thanks to Russell and Rhys Meyers there is a semblance of an emotional journey, but the film never reaches the heights to which it aspires.
Urban Cine File
1.9
This is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter.
New York Post
2.5
If this film is guided by any one template, though, it is not that of the symphony or the fairy tale, but rather that of Oliver Twist.
Christianity Today
2.5
In any case, telegraphing the message to impressionable young minds that all you need to succeed in life is about fifty easy to come by strokes of goo ..
News Blaze
3.8
All in all, a fanciful fairytale blending elements of Oliver Twist, Ferris Bueller, Peter Pan and The School of Rock likely to entertain and enthrall ..
News Blaze
3.1
Essentially, this is a fairy tale, but its told as if it were real.I greatly enjoy surreal presentations, but August Rush isnt quite presented that wa ..
Ross Anthony
1.9
I guess those willing to get wrapped up in it will feel the emotions and exultation, but the rest of us will have to settle for listening to the music ..
Waffle Movies
3.0
Despite its flaws, the music is the ultimate star of this film and Freddy Highmore is a highlight. He plays the role with a truthfulness and innocence ..
Hollywood Chicago
2.0
The result is pieces of story without context, and the effect is ultimately alienating.
ComingSoon
1.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
2.5
Yet every single time, despite my every noble effort to resist it, a tingle ran down my spine, and my eyes filmed with saline.
Chron
1.0
Watching this yucky emotional drama is like being sprayed with treacle from a high pressure hose.
Film Guardian
3.1
A heartwarming fairy tale that is undeniably sweet, even if it occasionally crosses over into sappiness.
No La
5.0
This movie offers that and so much more.An amazing tale and performances by all.
Entertainment Spectrum
1.5
A perfect example of everything wrong about Hollywood films, August Rush is an obstinately perverse, hammy piece of instant gratification cinema that ..
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
4.2
The film utterly fails to captivate on its characterizations or plot.
Edge Boston
1.5
Indeed it does.Fortunately, August Rush is too forgettable to knock it out of you for long.
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