| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"If August Rush is a fairy tale, it's an excruciatingly, sometimes hilariously oblivious one." more... |
D+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"I think more sensitive younger viewers, in particular, might really like it." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"Wide-eyed fantasy is implausible and corny, but lighten up and you'll like it." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Anne Gilbert |
"Going in to August Rush, you've got to be more than willing to accept fairy tale magic..." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...an often charming urban fantasy that teeters perilously on the brink of preciousness but never quite topples over." more... |
B- |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
"...hits the sweet and sentimental notes way too hard." more... |
D+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"This is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter." more... |
D+ |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"To describe August Rush as a piece of shameless hokum doesn't quite do justice to the potentially shock-inducing sugar content of this contemporary fairy tale." more... |
D- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"August Rush isn't just a bad movie - it's an aggressively bad movie. " more... |
D |
San Francisco Chronicle
Pam Grady |
"...inane musical melodrama..." more... |
D |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...this could be the year's most sharply defined love-it-or-hate-it movie." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry." more... |
B |
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