The Sound of Music (1965)

All Critics (50) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (8) | DVD (33)

In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.

February 20, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Every audience sniffle and tear has been taken into account.

December 13, 2006 Full Review | Comments (9)

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.

May 20, 2003 Full Review | Comments (4)

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Top Critic

The movie has almost everything: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue and adventure.

November 4, 2001 Full Review | Comment

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

A warmly pulsating, captivating drama.

February 13, 2001 Full Review | Comment

Variety

Top Critic

Outstanding family film features glorious music.

December 29, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

I'm no longer Friedrich. I'm no longer 14. And I'm no longer a boy. So why does this movie continue to haunt my nightmares?

November 14, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

The Sound of Music is high-fructose corn-syrupy, built on simplistic psychology, unnaturalistic acting and historical inaccuracy. It's also well-nigh irresistible. [Blu-ray]

November 7, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

The Sound of Music has one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's best scores, and that's saying something. It's a warm and wonderful movie that has "timeless" written all over it.

November 4, 2010 Full Review | Comment

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

It grows on one like edelweiss.

March 8, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Escapist films about, well, escaping, don't come any better than this.

January 28, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Film4

Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones.

September 22, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Xan Brooks

Guardian [UK]

See website for more details.

September 19, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Rory L. Aronsky

Screen It!

God, The Sound of Music is so freakin' nice.

March 11, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating. And only the sly, insistently subversive Christopher Plummer is on our side.

December 13, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

TV Guide's Movie Guide

One of the finest examples of escapist musical entertainment. The Sound of Music is a terrific picture.

November 21, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Labeled "Sound of Money," this is Hollywood musical as its most calculating, with something for everyone: corny anti-Nazi politics, melodic tunes, schmaltzy romance, old-fashioned family values

July 24, 2006 Full Review | Comments (2)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

jedan od najvoljenijih filmova svih vremena

June 7, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Dragan Antulov

Index.hr

Call me a drongo, but this really is quite watchable (yes, I've seen it more than once).

February 9, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

• 1. Mother Abbess: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
  2. Kurt: I wonder what grass tastes like.
  3. Captain Von Trapp: You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.
  4. Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.
  5. Captain Von Trapp: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.
  6. Kurt: Only grown-up men are scared of women.
  7. Maria von Trapp: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
  – Submitted by rick b (39 days ago)
• 1. Maria von Trapp: Maria: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.
  – Submitted by Amanda C (3 months ago)
• 1. Maria von Trapp: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
  – Submitted by Nusfish K (3 months ago)
• 1. Baroness Ebberfeld: Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling.
  – Submitted by rob g (14 months ago)
• 1. Captain Von Trapp: Fraulein, is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?
  – Submitted by rob g (14 months ago)