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Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: It's an unabashed feel-good weeper, and those eager for that type of fare might as well settle for this one. But an equal number will be put off by the bad dialogue, transparent manipulation and saccharine overkill. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: We need to break out a whole new definition of cheesiness for a film like this, augmented by fake tears and vomit gestures. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: An exercise in dissonance. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: If it isn't brilliant cinema, it's honest and powerful. Read more
Jennifer Preyss, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: However predictable, a good ol' fashioned happy ending is always welcome. But bring a box of tissues: A good cry is to be expected as well. Read more
Suzanne Condie Lambert, Arizona Republic: Director Kirsten Sheridan's new film is August Rush. But she might as well have named it Oliver! 2: Electric Boogaloo. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: If August Rush is a fairy tale, it's an excruciatingly, sometimes hilariously oblivious one. Read more
Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: A music box trying to pass itself off as an orchestra. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: August Rush feels like the cinematic equivalent of being stuffed with fruitcake and doused with a gallon of egg nog. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The goal is to drive mothers everywhere insane with the urge to rescue him and brush his hair (or the other way around), and in my case it worked. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It tries very hard to be fanciful, lyrical, sentimental, magical, rapturous, romantic, heartwarming, tear-jerking and inspiring. The result, however, is a goulash of half-baked bathos. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Director Kirsten Sheridan has no interest in keeping August Rush tethered to reality or toning down the sentimentality. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The kind of fairy tale that makes Cinderella look like kitchen-sink realism. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It would be nice to say this predictable fantasy has such a big heart, we can forgive its excesses. But director Kirsten Sheridan overplays nearly every already-corny scene. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: This is the sort of movie that requires you not only to suspend disbelief, but to check your sanity at the ticket counter. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: For all its patently absurd situations, its occasionally cloying characters and its naked tugs at the old heartstrings, August Rush still finds a way, every so often, of dropping a lump into your throat. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: With its musical themes for individual characters that come together symphonically at the climax, the music is so persuasive that it carries the narrative rather than complementing it. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: An aggressively bad movie. There are times when it tips the scales of absurdity and becomes almost comical. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way August Rush declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking. Read more
Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle: [An] inane musical melodrama. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If Charles Dickens were alive today, he might be writing projects like August Rush, the unabashedly sentimental tale of a plucky orphan lad who falls in with streetwise urchins as he seeks the family he ought to have. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: It's hard to believe in the magical power of music to heal and connect lost souls when the tunes are lame. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: This inspirational drama gets three stars for oddity value alone. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: August Rush will not be for everyone, but it works if you surrender to its lilting and unabashedly sentimental tale of evocative music and visual poetry. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: Many of the so-called twists feel strained, though preteens are unlikely to complain, and there's nothing here to really frighten an even younger crowd. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Intended as a fuzzy family fable, August plays more to the gag reflex than to the heart. Read more