All Critics (155)
|
Top Critics (38)
|
Fresh (156)
|
Rotten (5)
|
DVD (15)
So this is how you make a low-budget musical these days!
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.
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.
Forget everything you think you know about the movie musical, one of the more predictable genres. With Once, writer-director John Carney deconstructs it and reinvents it as something wholly new, inspired and alive.
This lovely tale of a love affair between a Dublin street musician and a flower girl will leave you wistful for more. It's a movie to fall in love with and a movie to fall in love during. It is the most naturalistic musical ever.
Don't miss Once. It has to be seen and heard to be believed and enjoyed.
At once delicate and gritty, wistful and deeply satisfying.
There 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
my biggest road block was the fact that I didn't like the music
It has its own peculiar naturalism, a kind of lo-fi, lovelorn charm.
Um filme mágico que, através de sua narrativa enganosamente simples, alcança uma vitória que escapa ŕ maioria das obras do gęnero, retratando com sentimento o instante preciso no qual dois seres humanos se descobrem apaixonados um pelo outro.
Once is the anti-blockbuster that couldn't have come at a better time.
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
Un effort battant la mesure d'une maničre somme toute imparfaite, mais néanmoins prenante, qu'un genre aussi excessif que le film musical a besoin de temps ŕ autre...
A moving story about two people who share a common love of music.
mia idiaiteri kinimatografiki empeiria, esto kai san kolaz, apo mia seira binteoklip me toys idioys, agapimenoys soy protagonistes
With delicate care and a modest street musician attitude, Carney has reinvented what a movie musical can be.
Once feels like one of life's captured moments--a slice of kismet where you just happen to be in the right place at the right time to witness a marvel of nature, an act of tenderness . . . .
...an epic told in incomplete lyric lines, a classic fable forged out of slowly strummed guitar, lilting piano, and strained, struggling voices.
More Critic Reviews
66%
——
97%
Top Critic
