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Critics Consensus: Sing Street is a feel-good musical with huge heart and irresistible optimism, and its charmimg cast and hummable tunes help to elevate its familiar plotting.
Critic Consensus: Sing Street is a feel-good musical with huge heart and irresistible optimism, and its charmimg cast and hummable tunes help to elevate its familiar plotting.
All Critics (199) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (189) | Rotten (10) | DVD (1)
Like a great pop song, this film is over much too soon.
As a testament to the power of music, the bond of brotherhood and the boundless possibilities of youth, "Sing Street" just plain works.
The film captures the earnestness and the silliness of the boys' efforts, but also how little that matters when you're discovering what it feels like to create something.
With its intriguing characters and exhilarating music, "Sing Street" is the best film about being young, gifted and Irish since "The Commitments."
A delightful film that is almost impossible to watch without a smile on your face.
Carney has an uncanny way of telling a story through music. "Sing Street" reminds us of being young and lost in a song, realizing with a jolt that someone else had the same feelings we did.
[Director John Carney]... has imagined something like Super 8, but with music instead of movies, much more spontaneous and uninhibited, a hundred times more authentic. [Full review in Spanish]
It's glam, it's sweet and it has a killer soundtrack.
Middling film that relies heavily on 1980s nostalgia-and unfortunately, the racist and male-centric tropes of that decade as well.
...absolutely delightful, a coming-of-age story filled with catchy 1980s pop music and wonderfully charming and romantic performances.
The crafty and colorful Sing Street could be perceived as the junior-sized extension of the aforementioned "Once" where lyrics and love methodically come together in unison.
John Carney's retro-feelgood mash-up, Sing Street, is elevated by its sheer charm and the way it taps into a fundamental truth about the sentiment of teenage yearning.
Pleasantly surprised. Quite deep for what seemed like it would just be a teen movie.
Super Reviewer
An under-the-radar, tour de force that's vibrant and meaningful. Sing Street strikes the right chords with its ambitious originality, adventurous tone and sentimentality for the rebellious hearts in all of us; not to mention its salutations to the UK music scene in the 80s. 4.5/5
"We can have a show, just us, right here!" This is yet another reenactment of that filmic musical musing, this time in Dublin. Where it succeeds is in that it doesn't fall flat, as so very many do.
Director John Carney knows exactly how to mesh storytelling and music into his films. In both of his most well-known feature films, Once (which is still one of my favourite romances to this day) and his more mainstream Begin Again, there was a certain level of electricity between the characters, unlike most films. He has proven himself as one of the best directors around today, as far as characters and performances go. Sing Street is absolutely no exception to that fact and may just be the best film I will see all year. Filled with music that will make you tap your feet and lyrics that will have you in tears, lets talk about why Sing Street is awesome, beautiful, hilarious, and emotional, all at once. Taking place in the 1980's, Sing Street follows Conor, played spectacularly well by newcomer Ferdia Walsh-Peelo if I might add, as he he bullied around at a new school. Finding a few friends that are just like him, he takes his brothers advice in starting a band. Taking elements from bands like Duran Duran or Depeche Mode, they form their own futuristic genre. The band is started due to his interest in a girl, but their friendship is unlike anything I have seen in film this year. Their chemistry is off the charts and their performances as these teenagers are fantastic. On top of all this, the original music written for this film and played throughout, is absolutely perfect. Yes, the cast in terrific, and yes the story works very well, but the main reason this film is so much fun to watch, is the fact that each and every song tells a story. Although you get everything you need through the character interactions, the music played a few scenes after an emotional moment occurs, allows you to dive in even deeper into their mind. There is some awesome rock to bop your head to, some slow rock to make you tear up, and a climactic finale with enough music to satisfying both. Having Sing Street take place in Dublin, giving every cast member an accent, is not something you see released worldwide, but I could not be happier that it was. This film needs to be seen. Dealing with many elements, including bullying, divorce, friendship, love, and what it truly means to do something with your life, Sing Street balances everything very well. Being able to establish many messages that it will try to accomplish in the first act, nearly every single one of them is done to perfection. This film had me in tears on multiple occasions, whether the message was being delivered through an emotional song or just a choice made by a character you have come to care about. Sing Street is a much deeper, and more fun film that its promotional material suggests. Sing Street is the rare film that meshes romance, friendship, and life issues all into one, while also being a fast paced film with a lot more to say than, hey we have cool music in our movie so you better like it. I loved everything about this film from start to finish. From its masterful to direction, to its believable and loveable character, to its fantastic music, Sing Street is a film that should be on your radar if it already wasn't. Sure, there may be a few average moviegoers that are turned off by its offbeat tone, but to me, this is why film exists. There are still many more films to see this year, but at this moment, I do not see anything topping Sing Street. A True work of filmmaking art.
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