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Song One has plenty of earnest charm, but that isn't enough to overcome its slight, familiar story.
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Despite the delicate shadings Hathaway brings to the role, Song One moves inexorably from wan to wearying. Jan 29, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4
Despite the delicate shadings Hathaway brings to the role, Song One moves inexorably from wan to wearying.
Peter Travers
There are no real surprises here, just lives played out quietly and succinctly under the seductive spell of music. Jan 23, 2015 | Full Review…
There are no real surprises here, just lives played out quietly and succinctly under the seductive spell of music.
Mary Houlihan
In her feature debut, writer/director Kate Barker-Froyland tends to tiptoe away from the dramatic high notes that audiences often crave and comes up a stanza or two short from a fulfilling resolution. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
In her feature debut, writer/director Kate Barker-Froyland tends to tiptoe away from the dramatic high notes that audiences often crave and comes up a stanza or two short from a fulfilling resolution.
Susan Wloszczyna
The film, like the world it's part of, remains just a little too precious, a little too self-involved, a little too insular. Instead of singing out, directly to us, it hums its little tune only to itself. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4
The film, like the world it's part of, remains just a little too precious, a little too self-involved, a little too insular. Instead of singing out, directly to us, it hums its little tune only to itself.
Stephen Whitty
Starts off as a singularly strong slice-of-life drama before dissipating into thin air. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Starts off as a singularly strong slice-of-life drama before dissipating into thin air.
Tirdad Derakhshani
Anyone with the slightest allergy to emo-tinged millennial attitudinizing should steer clear. Jan 23, 2015 | Full Review…
Anyone with the slightest allergy to emo-tinged millennial attitudinizing should steer clear.
Sheri Linden
Newcomer Johnny Flynn is the shining star of this rather mesmerising music movie that hits the right notes. Sep 20, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Newcomer Johnny Flynn is the shining star of this rather mesmerising music movie that hits the right notes.
Jason Francis Johnson
Song One seems unabashedly fond of romantic rooftop wee-hours hangouts in front of Manhattan skyline bokeh backdrops. It's all tenderness and no cynicism in this little world. Aug 24, 2017 | Full Review…
Song One seems unabashedly fond of romantic rooftop wee-hours hangouts in front of Manhattan skyline bokeh backdrops. It's all tenderness and no cynicism in this little world.
Jonathan Kiefer
[Anne] Hathaway emotes prettily, but this slight picture evaporates on contact. Aug 21, 2017 | Full Review…
[Anne] Hathaway emotes prettily, but this slight picture evaporates on contact.
Kathy Fennessy
t's the scenes without music that feel false, and Song One has far too many of them. Jun 21, 2016 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
t's the scenes without music that feel false, and Song One has far too many of them.
Dan Mecca
There's something just too precious about it all. Dec 21, 2015 | Full Review…
There's something just too precious about it all.
Robert Horton
If you're a Hathaway fan, this will be worth your time; she's in every scene, and builds a convincingly tense relationship with screen mom Mary Steenburgen. But if you're looking for the next Once, well, this isn't it. Dec 18, 2015 | Rating: 2/5
If you're a Hathaway fan, this will be worth your time; she's in every scene, and builds a convincingly tense relationship with screen mom Mary Steenburgen. But if you're looking for the next Once, well, this isn't it.
Norman Wilner
I couldn't get into it. I watched most, but it's very long and slow moving (actually it's not long at under 90 minutes, but it feels it). It's not bad as such, but I was bored.
Super Reviewer
Predictable with questionable acting in places, especially from the big names. But the excellent folk soundtrack and soundtrack in general makes up for it.
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