However predictable, a good ol' fashioned happy ending is always welcome. But bring a box of tissues: A good cry is to be expected as well.
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12/01/07
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August Rush (2007)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Though featuring a talented cast, August Rush cannot overcome the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot.
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $31,529,568
Synopsis: AUGUST RUSH is part romance, part gentle fantasy, but this sweet drama is all heart. When young cellist Lyla (Keri Russell) and rock musician Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) meet at a party in the mid... [More]
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Robin Williams, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
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Reviews for August Rush
Top CriticEven the final few moments, which should have us choking up, seemed hurried and shot from the wrong angles.
11/27/07
Top CriticAugust Rush will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry.
11/22/07
Top CriticExuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous.
11/21/07
Top CriticIntended as a fuzzy family fable, August plays more to the gag reflex than to the heart.
11/21/07
Top Critic[An] inane musical melodrama.
11/21/07
Top CriticIt would be nice to say this predictable fantasy has such a big heart, we can forgive its excesses. But director Kirsten Sheridan overplays nearly every already-corny scene.
11/21/07
Top CriticAugust Rush feels like the cinematic equivalent of being stuffed with fruitcake and doused with a gallon of egg nog.
11/21/07
Top CriticThe goal is to drive mothers everywhere insane with the urge to rescue him and brush his hair (or the other way around), and in my case it worked.
11/21/07
Top CriticIt's hard to believe in the magical power of music to heal and connect lost souls when the tunes are lame.
11/21/07
Top CriticDirector Kirsten Sheridan has no interest in keeping August Rush tethered to reality or toning down the sentimentality.
11/21/07
Top CriticI dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way August Rush declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking.
11/21/07
Top CriticAn exercise in dissonance.
11/21/07
Top CriticIf August Rush is a fairy tale, it's an excruciatingly, sometimes hilariously oblivious one.
11/21/07
Top CriticWe need to break out a whole new definition of cheesiness for a film like this, augmented by fake tears and vomit gestures.
11/21/07
Top CriticThis is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter.
11/21/07
Top CriticAn aggressively bad movie. There are times when it tips the scales of absurdity and becomes almost comical.
11/21/07
Top CriticTo describe August Rush as a piece of shameless hokum doesn’t quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale.
11/21/07
Top CriticIf Charles Dickens were alive today, he might be writing projects like August Rush, the unabashedly sentimental tale of a plucky orphan lad who falls in with streetwise urchins as he seeks the family he ought to have.
11/20/07
Top CriticIt's an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill.
11/20/07
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