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Once (2007)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:147
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: A charming, captivating tale of love and music, Once sets the standard for the modern musical. And with Dublin as its backdrop, Once is fun and fresh.
Theatrical Release: May 18, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $9.2M
Synopsis: "Once" is a modern-day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard and his Irish band "The Frames," "Once" tells the story of a... [More]
Starring: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick
Director: John Carney
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REVIEWS FOR ONCE
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Jul 6, 2010
At once delicate and gritty, wistful and deeply satisfying.
Oct 29, 2008
So this is how you make a low-budget musical these days!
Oct 18, 2008
Top CriticThere is much to admire about Once, in a little-movie-that-could kind of way, but it can’t help but get in its own way just when it begins to gain some momentum
Oct 18, 2008
In an era when Hollywood has largely lost the ability to distinguish between romance and sex, Once is the rare film that recognizes that love is no less love for being held in check, it is merely a different kind of love.
Sep 18, 2008
Top Criticmy biggest road block was the fact that I didn't like the music
Aug 17, 2008
It has its own peculiar naturalism, a kind of lo-fi, lovelorn charm.
Aug 7, 2008
Um filme mágico que, através de sua narrativa enganosamente simples, alcança uma vitória que escapa à maioria das obras do gênero, retratando com sentimento o instante preciso no qual dois seres humanos se descobrem apaixonados um pelo outro.
Apr 19, 2008
Once is the anti-blockbuster that couldn't have come at a better time.
Feb 28, 2008
a tender little ultralow budget movie about the intimate connection of making music...the warm folkiness of the songs and their generally non-narrative-pushing content make it feel more like a long, lovely home movie of a short portion of two people's liv
Feb 16, 2008
Un effort battant la mesure d'une manière somme toute imparfaite, mais néanmoins prenante, qu'un genre aussi excessif que le film musical a besoin de temps à autre...
Feb 16, 2008
A moving story about two people who share a common love of music.
Feb 2, 2008
mia idiaiteri kinimatografiki empeiria, esto kai san kolaz, apo mia seira binteoklip me toys idioys, agapimenoys soy protagonistes
Jan 26, 2008
With delicate care and a modest street musician attitude, Carney has reinvented what a movie musical can be.
Jan 14, 2008
...an epic told in incomplete lyric lines, a classic fable forged out of slowly strummed guitar, lilting piano, and strained, struggling voices.
Dec 28, 2007
Though the trailer for Once might pique your curiosity, you don't know the freight train of raw emotion that's about to blindside you.
Dec 24, 2007
Once doesn't plop its emotions on its characters' sleeves, and it trusts us enough to leave some of the best stuff unstated. In other words, it trusts us to know that half the music lies between the notes.
Dec 19, 2007
Top CriticCarney's Once is definitely not enough...thoroughly inspirational, lyrical, charming and cheeky...a winning spark that ignites the lovelorn imagination.
Dec 15, 2007
A minimalist musical which makes the most of the 'boy-meets-girl theme.
Dec 14, 2007
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